This year, the medicine prize carries particular significance amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has highlighted the importance of medical research.
. A significant number of those who are chronically infected will develop cirrhosis, scarring of the liver caused by long-term liver damage, or liver cancer.
The studies of transfusion-associated hepatitis conducted by Alter demonstrated that an unknown virus was a common cause of chronic hepatitis. Houghton worked to isolate the genome of the new virus while Rice provided the final evidence showing that Hepatitis C virus alone could cause hepatitis. The award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor , courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
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