2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Alter, Houghton and Rice "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus."
Date5 October 2020 (2020-10-05)
LocationStockholm
CountrySweden
Presented byNobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
Hosted byThomas Perlmann
Reward(s)9 million SEK (2017)
First award1901
2020 laureatesHarvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice
Website2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the American virologists Harvey J. Alter (b. 1935), Michael Houghton (b. 1949) and Charles M. Rice (b. 1952) "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus." During the award ceremony on December 10, 2020, Prof. Gunilla Karlsson-Hedestam said:

"The discovery of the Hepatitis C virus by this year’s Laureates laid the foundation for our current understanding about how the virus survives in its niche during the long chronic phase of the infection, and how liver disease develops. And importantly, it led to the development of highly effective anti-viral medicines that now cure the infection in almost all treated persons."

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