Scientists Harvey J. Alter, Charles M. Rice and Michael Houghton win Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering Hepatitis C virus
Thomas Perlmann , secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, announces the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden, October 5, 2020.
Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.The World Health Organization estimates there are over 70 million cases of hepatitis worldwide and 400,000 deaths each year. The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of more than $1,118,000 , courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
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