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First Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

First Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Posted by on Mar 29, 2020 in Blog, Coronavirus / COVID-19 |

You may have heard of a treatment for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the news that sounds unusual. It involves injecting serum from someone who has recovered from COVID-19 into patients who are sick with COVID-19. Nobel Prize This type of treatment actually won Emil von Behring the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901.1 Behring was part of a cohort of...

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Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. James Allison and “Hope”

Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. James Allison  and “Hope”

Posted by on Oct 14, 2018 in Blog |

At a press briefing at the International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference in New York, held October 1 just after receiving notification from the Nobel committee, Dr. James Allison said that the prize “should give patients hope because we’ve got things that we know work. If this didn’t work, there would have been no prize.” This “work”...

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