“Deserving Nobel Prizes” – Sydsvenskan

“Well deserved Nobel prizes”

Well-deserved Nobel prizes that laid the foundation for the development of drugs for hepatitis C, a chronic liver disease, as Uppsala researcher Anja Sandström describes the three researchers awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. – This has led many to be cured of this disease. simply, and can go on living.

“It has led to many people being cured of this disease quite simply and being able to continue living,” says researcher Anja Sandström of the winners’ discovery of hepatitis C.Image: Mikael Wallerstedt

Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice have taken a decisive step in the fight against one of our biggest global health problems: blood-borne hepatitis, writes the Nobel Assembly in its announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. of this year.