VARIOUS NATIONAL MEDIA: James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine

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Two scientists who discovered how to harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer have won the 2018 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

James Allison, of the US, and Tasuku Honjo, of Japan, will share the 9m Swedish kronor (£775,000) prize, announced by the Nobel assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Period1 Oct 2018

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  • TitleJames P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine
    Media name/outletThe Guardian
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date1/10/18
    DescriptionProf Dan Davis, of the University of Manchester and author of The Beautiful Cure, a book that describes the work that led to today’s prize, said: “I’m so thrilled that a Nobel has been awarded for this game-changing cancer therapy. It doesn’t work for everyone but lives have been saved, and it has sparked a revolution in thinking about the many other ways in which the immune system can be harnessed or unleashed to fight cancer and other illnesses. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg – many more medicines like this are on the horizon.”
    URLhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/01/james-p-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine
    PersonsDaniel Davis

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  • Cancer

Keywords

  • cancer
  • immunology
  • Nobel Prize