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Nobel Medicine for Three Scientists who Invented the Hepatitis C Virus

AFP / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

The Nobel Committee sits in front of a screen featuring the 2020 Nobel Medicine laureates; Harvey J Alter from the United States, Michael Houghton from England, and Charles M Rice from the United States (from left to right), during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday (5/10/2020). All three contributed to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The discovery of the hepatitis C virus has uncovered the causes of chronic hepatitis cases and allowed the development of blood tests, new drugs and vaccines that have saved millions of lives.

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