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Profs feel satisfied, snubbed by Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize was awarded Monday for cancer immunology. The 2018 Nobel laureates James Allison and Tasuku Honjo found proteins known as immune checkpoints that can stop T-cells, causing them to pass over a cancer cell instead of attacking it. Checkpoint inhibitors drastically transformed the field of cancer immunology said Mario Sznol, co-director of the Cancer Immunology Program at YCC. He praised the decision to award Allison and Honjo, but said many others also deserved recognition. “One who didn’t get the Nobel Prize but made a major, major contribution to understanding this pathway and its role in the treatment of cancer is Dr. Lieping Chen, who’s here at Yale, and as far as I’m concerned, Dr. Chen also deserves part of the Nobel Prize.”