Allison won the 2018 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday along with Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University in Japan. A comment like that makes me happier than any prize.”——1:15 p.m.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has congratulated Nobel Prize winner Tasuku Honjo of Japan. Honjo and James Allison of the University of Texas were jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in medicine. One of his treatments was a drug that blocked the immune-cell “brake” studied by new Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo. This year’s Nobel Prize recipients will be revealed starting Monday with the prize for medicine or physiology.

Source: National Post October 01, 2018 09:46 UTC