​Nobel Prize In Physiology And Physics Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

  • Awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of ‘immune checkpoint therapy,’ a cancer treatment.
  • James P. Allison studied a known protein that functions as a brake on the immune system. He realized the potential of releasing the brake and thereby unleashing our immune cells to attack tumors.
  • Tasuku Honjo discovered a protein on immune cells and, after careful exploration of its function, eventually revealed that it also operates as a brake. Therapies based on his discovery proved to be strikingly effective in the fight against cancer.

Physics

  • Awarded for groundbreaking inventions in the ....
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