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The hepatitis C virus, one of the leading causes of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, has been discovered and cured by three scientists who have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. They are the American scientists Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and the British scientists Michael Houghton.
Thomas Pearlman, permanent secretary of the Nobel Committee for Medicine, announced Monday the names of the three current year’s winners in medicine from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
“This year, the Nobel Committee honored three researchers who have long been involved in the fight against blood-borne hepatitis and have come to the important conclusion that they have solved one of the world’s leading health problems. They have identified the virus through blood tests and drug discovery, saving millions of lives.Your search for the virus will be seen as a milestone in the ongoing fight against viral diseases around the world.
The key to a successful fight against infectious diseases is identifying the “infectious agent”. A group of researchers first discovered the hepatitis A virus in the 1940s. They said that this water-borne virus causes various liver problems. Then, in the 1960s, the scientist Baruch Bloomberg, after his long research, identified the hepatitis B virus. Infection with the blood-borne virus is more serious and can lead to liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, he showed the first study by scientist Bloomberg. For this he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986. Hepatitis C, another virus from the same family, has been identified and its prevention techniques have been discovered by three Nobel laureates. Your research will help explain one of the blood sources of hepatitis B.
Harvey J. Alter, 65, is a medical researcher, virologist and physician. He is currently the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Transfusion Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health. Before that, he worked for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a US government agency.
Scientist Charles M. Rice was born in 1952 in Sacramento, California, USA He is currently Professor of Virology at Rockefeller University in the United States.
Michael Houghton, an English scientist, was inspired to become a microbiologist at the age of 16 by reading about Houghton Louis Pasteur. After working in various locations in England and the United States, he was director of the Institute of Applied Virology at the University of Alberta.
On December 10, the winners will receive a gold medal, a Nobel Prize and three scientists will receive three million equivalent to 10 million Swedish crowns. According to tradition, King Carl Gustaf of Sweden will present the award to the winners in a simple ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the day of the death of world famous scientist Alfred Nobel, the father of the prize. According to the decision of the Nobel Foundation, on December 10, Nobel laureates will participate in the ‘Virtual Nobel Prize’ ceremony by participating in a webinar at the Swedish Embassy or workplace or university in their respective countries. However, it has yet to be decided who will present the prizes to the winners locally.
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