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Svante Pääbo receives Nobel Prize in Medicine

October 3, 2022

Svante Pääbo was conferred the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 3, 2022. Key facts Svante Pääbo received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his pioneering works in the field of paleogenomics – a branch of science dealing with the reconstruction and analysis of genomic information obtained extinct species. The most notable achievements of this ..

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James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo awarded 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

October 2, 2018

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to two immunologists James P. Allison (US) and Tasuku Honjo (Japan) for their discovery of Immune checkpoint therapy i.e. cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation. It was announced by Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. Significance of their discovery Both immunologists had ..

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