The Discovery of Hepatitis C — The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 10 December 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 383 (24), 2297-2299
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp2031110
Abstract
The discovery of HCV was a major milestone in 20th-century medicine, and the 2020 Nobel awardees represent three critical periods of research on this important virus. Their discovery led to elimination of post-transfusion hepatitis and a means to cure hepatitis C.Keywords
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