Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two cancer researchers for immune system breakthrough

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two cancer researchers for immune system breakthrough

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to James Allison of MD Anderson Cancer Center and Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation,” the Nobel committee announced on Monday in Stockholm.

It was a rare award for a key cancer breakthrough, in this case the discovery that the immune system can be tweaked to unleash the immune system’s tumor-attacking T cells.