Immunotherapy Pioneers Take 2018 Nobel Prize

This year, the Nobel committee has sought to recognize the enormous potential and meteoric rise in success of immunotherapy as a strategy for treating cancer. By stimulating the inherent ability of our immune system to attack tumor cells this year’s Nobel Laureates have established an entirely new principle for cancer therapy. Specifically, the two recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine—James Allison, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Texas MD And