3 Win Nobel Prize For Medicine "For Discovery Of Hepatitis C Virus"

Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, the Nobel jury said.

The three were honoured for their "decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world," the jury said.

 

Nobel Prize For Medicine 2018

James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan have been honoured "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation," the Nobel Assembly said.