Nobel Prize in Medicine 2020 ‘for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus’
Kathmandu. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2020 has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice.
Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General for the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine announced the names of winners who had received the prize “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
American scientists Alter and Rice and British scientist Houghton have “made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world.”
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The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.” pic.twitter.com/MDHPmbiFmS— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2020
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