The 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the Discovery of Hepatitis C Virus: A Triumph of Curiosity and Persistence

Hepatology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc G. Ghany ◽  
Anna S.F. Lok ◽  
Jules L. Dienstag ◽  
Stephen M. Feinstone ◽  
Jay H. Hoofnagle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Nobel Prize

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
Oksana Aleksandrovna Rybachok
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
The Body ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
First Time ◽  
Selection Of

Despite the height of the coronavirus infection, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded in Stockholm in October 2020. This event was held online for the first time and was not accompanied by the traditional honoring of the laureates. In his will, Alfred Nobel entrusted the selection of the winner in this nomination to the Karolinska Medical and Surgical University of Stockholm, and the first award in this nomination took place in 1901. Since then, this event has been held 110 times, and 216 scientists have become laureates of the prize in the field of physiology and medicine, since the nominees are often not just one, but a group of researchers. This happened in 2020 - for research in the field of studying the hepatitis C virus, three scientists received the most prestigious award: the British Michael Houghton and the Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice. Due to the results of the research, which these three people conducted separately from each other, for the first time it became possible to completely eliminate the virus from the body.

scholarly journals Discovery of Hepatitis C Virus: Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talari Praveen
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Incubation Period ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Hepatitis A ◽  
Hepatitis Virus ◽  
Hepatic Cells

Scientists were successful in discovering Hepatitis A and B, but there is another virus which has a long incubation period, many people are asymptomatic and cause adverse effects. Three scientists Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice who have contributed their work in discovering a non-A, non-B hepatitis virus called Hepatitis C. Hepatitis is a disorder associated with the functioning hepatic cells in the liver. The person infected with Hepatitis C will have poor functioning of liver, vomiting, fatigue, jaundice and appetite. In this paper, I am going to explain about the Hepatitis C virus, and the work was done by three scientists and various research around it.

Nobel Prize for hepatitis C virus discoverers

The Lancet ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 396 (10257) ◽  
pp. 1058
Author(s):  
Talha Burki
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Nobel Prize

scholarly journals Revisiting the Elusive Hepatitis C Vaccine

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Todryk ◽  
Margaret F. Bassendine ◽  
Simon H. Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Rna Virus

The impactful discovery and subsequent characterisation of hepatitis C virus (HCV), an RNA virus of the flavivirus family, led to the awarding of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Harvey J [...]

scholarly journals OW THE HEPATITIS C VIRUS WAS DISCOVERED, OR THE DETECTIVE SEARCHES OF VIROLOGISTS FOR THE SILENT KILLER

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Svitlana I. Romaniuk ◽  
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Serhiy V. Komisarenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Nobel Committee ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
The University

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020 was awarded to two American scientists - Harvey James Alter from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA) and Charles M. Rice from the Rockefeller University (New York, NY, USA), as well as British researcher Michael Houghton, who is currently working at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) “for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.” A Nobel Committee press release has noted that the ongoing research of this year’s laureates are of great benefit to mankind, allowing for effective methods of diagnosis and measures for the prevention and treatment of this infection.

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