James P Allison of US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan win Nobel Prize for Medicine
The NobelPrize 2018 in Medicine has been awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”
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— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 1, 2018
The 2018 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” pic.twitter.com/gk69W1ZLNI
Immunologist James P. Allison studied a protein that functions as a brake on the immune system. He realised the potential of releasing the brake and unleashing our immune cells to attack tumours. He developed this concept into a new approach for treating patients.
"We can cure cancer with it" - Klas Kärre, member of the Nobel Committee, on the life-changing possibilities of this year's #NobelPrize awarded discovery. pic.twitter.com/ar4UyhuQ7h
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 1, 2018
James P. Allison is a professor at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Tasuku Honjo has worked as a professor at Kyoto University in Japan for the past 34 years. He discovered a protein on immune cells and illustrated how that too can operate as a break, though with a different action.
