Nobel Prize 2020: Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Stockholm:
Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice as well as Briton Michael Houghton on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, the Nobel jury said.
The three men were honored for their “decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world,” the jury said.
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