Cancer immunotherapy pioneers James Allison and Tasuku Honjo have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska Institutet’s Nobel Assembly awarded the prize ...

Allison shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2018, and immunotherapy has been established as a new pillar of cancer care, alongside surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and targeted ...

"The booming field of immunotherapy that these discoveries ... Medicine is the first of the Nobel Prizes awarded each year. The literature prize will not be handed out this year, after the ...

Recently, several Nobel prizes have been awarded to technologies that have had obvious clinical applications, such as cancer immunotherapy (in 2018) and gene editing (in 2020). It is perhaps no ...

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 ...

had jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in cancer immunotherapy. The two were instrumental in bringing about a new type of cancer treatment known as cancer ...

This discovery was so important that, in 2018, American immunologist James P. Allison and Japanese immunologist Tasuku Honjo were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their work that led to the ...

"Immunotherapy has opened the doors for patients ... cent of cases except in very advanced stages. The winners of the Nobel prize are to share a sum of nine million Swedish kronor - about $1. ...

Immunotherapy, using a patient's own immune ... Allison and Tasuku Honjo the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. But the approach does not work for all patients. Youngblood, Zebley ...