A son of a Newmarket man, professor John O’Keefe, jointly won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine today (7th October 2014) with Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser.

Prof John O’Keefe Nobel Laureate is to be awarded to an honorary doctorate from UCC on the 5th of December in recognition of his contribution to neuroscience, UCC has just announced.