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Alter Rice from the USA, Dr. Horton won the award
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three people: Harvey Olter and Charles Rice from the United States, and Michael Horton from the United Kingdom, who discovered the hepatitis C virus. The discovery of the hepatitis C virus contributed to human health by preventing transfusion-mediated infections and tackling liver cancer and cirrhosis.
The Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden announced on the 5th (local time) that three people were selected as the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Dr. Harvey J. Alter, 85, was a principal investigator in the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. I discovered.
Michael Houghton (70), a professor at the University of Alberta, Canada (Virusology), UK, worked at the pharmaceutical company Chiron, a DNA fragment that encodes a viral protein in the blood and serum of infected chimpanzee patients , and later called hepatitis C virus positive clones were found.
Former professor Charles M. Rice (68) of the University of Washington and Rockefeller University, when he was a researcher at the University of Washington, injected the RNA of the hepatitis C virus into the liver of a chimpanzee. It was confirmed that pathological changes occurred. Through this, it was also found that transfusion-mediated hepatitis can be induced.
The Nobel Committee said: “Thanks to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus by the prize winners for physiological medicine, high-precision blood tests have been made possible and have greatly improved human health by preventing transfusion-mediated hepatitis.” He explained the background of the selection.
The winners will receive a total of 9 million crowns (about 1.09 billion won). The Nobel Prize ceremony, which takes place every December 10 in Stockholm, Sweden, will be replaced online this year due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
/ Reporter Lim Woong-jae [email protected]
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