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What can we learn from 2018 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize?
2018 Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize was awarded to two very well established gentleman named James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo.
Introduction
James P. Allison
James P. Allison is an American immunologist and Nobel Laureate. He holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. He lived a very successful life and made breakthrough discoveries. While we will going to delve into these discoveries, we can also mention about his background. Sadly, Allison background is a sad one.
He lost his mother of lymphoma at the age of 10. He lost his brother of prostate cancer in 2005.
“This is a way of liberating people from a burden of always having every day to be thinking about the fact that you’ve got this disease that can come back and kill you”
Tasuku Honjo
Tasuku is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He studied medicine at the Kyoto University and received his PhD there in 1975. He played a big…
