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Title James Allison and Tasuku Honjo: deserving winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Media name/outlet The Conversation Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/10/18 Description The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to two immunologists for their revolutionary approaches to treat cancer. James Allison, based in the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and Tasuku Honjo, based at Kyoto University in Japan, led exciting and groundbreaking work on developing new types of immunotherapy that help our immune system fight cancer. URL https://theconversation.com/james-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-deserving-winners-of-this-years-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine-104163 Persons Sheena Cruickshank
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Title AFP: Nobel-winning therapy weaponises immune system against cancer Media name/outlet AFP Country/Territory France Date 1/10/18 Description *covered globally from this wire release*
Sheena Cruickshank, an immunology lecturer at the University of Manchester in Britain, said the therapy has "enabled us to harness the power of the body to help heal itself".
"A lot of conventional cancer therapies are about destroying cells and can be quite damaging, but this is much more targeted and much more specific because it's enabling our immune cells to come in and actually kill the tumour cells directly," she told AFP.URL https://www.afp.com/en/news/2265/nobel-winning-therapy-weaponises-immune-system-against-cancer-doc-19o22y1 Persons Sheena Cruickshank
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Cancer
Keywords
- immunology
- cancer
- Nobel Prize