Nobel medicine award

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of over $1.1 million courtesy of a bequest left by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The medicine prize carries particular significance this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has highlighted the importance that medical research has for