James Allison

Nobel-winning therapy weaponises immune system against cancer

A revolutionary cancer treatment pioneered by the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine is hailed as the future of fighting the disease -- and it has fewer devastating side effects than chemotherapy.

Nobel Prize in Medicine for Cancer Therapy: US, Japanese duo win it

Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body's natural defences can fight cancer, the jury said yesterday.

October 2, 2018
October 2, 2018

Nobel-winning therapy weaponises immune system against cancer

A revolutionary cancer treatment pioneered by the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine is hailed as the future of fighting the disease -- and it has fewer devastating side effects than chemotherapy.

October 2, 2018
October 2, 2018

Nobel Prize in Medicine for Cancer Therapy: US, Japanese duo win it

Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body's natural defences can fight cancer, the jury said yesterday.

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