Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of cancer immunotherapy via checkpoint inhibition

Checkpoint inhibitor therapies (NIH) On October 1, 2018, the The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced that it had awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer immunotherapy via immune checkpoint inhibition. As is usual, these Nobel Prize [...]

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