Cancer cure therapy: Releasing the brakes of immunity. “The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: … one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine …” (Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel). The 2018 Nobel […]

Nobel Prize for Medicine Goes to Cancer Immunotherapy Pioneers Two men are recognized for basic research that unleashed the immune system against cancer, becoming a new pillar of immunotherapy Immunologists James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work in the relatively new field […]