Sir John B. Gurdon delivered his Nobel Lecture, "The Egg and the Nucleus: A Battle for Supremacy" on 7 December 2012 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Urban Lendahl, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

Shinya Yamanaka delivered his Nobel Lecture, "A Winding Road to Pluripotency" on 7 December 2012 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Urban Lendahl, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.