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Nobel for Helping the Immune System Fight Cancer

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo share the Nobel Prize for their work on harnessing the cancer patient's own immune system to destroy tumors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Steve Murski.

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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinski Institute has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to James P.

0:51.0

Alisson and Tusco Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of

0:58.0

negative immune regulation. Thomas Perilman, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly shortly after

1:03.8

5.30 this morning Eastern time. James P. Allison was born in Alice in Texas in the United States.

1:11.6

He performed his prize-winning studies

1:15.6

at University of California, Berkeley,

1:18.6

and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

1:22.6

He is now active at the University of Texas

1:26.6

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

1:30.7

Tasku Honjo was born in Kyoto, in Japan.

1:34.8

He performed his prize-winning studies at Kyoto University, where he's still active.

1:41.1

Karolinska Institute immunologist Klaus Scherra, a member of the Nobel Committee,

1:46.0

explained the significance of the work of the new Nobel laureates.

1:49.6

Alice Sons and Honyos discoveries have added a new pillar in cancer therapy.

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