{"id":375,"date":"2026-06-16T22:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/james-p-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:18:40","slug":"james-p-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/james-p-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"content__head content__head--article tonal__head tonal__head--tone-news\" style=\"display: grid; margin-left: -15rem; grid-template-columns: 15rem 1fr; grid-template-areas: &quot;labels headline-standfirst&quot; &quot;meta main-media&quot;; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: &quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;, Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;\">\n<div class=\"content__headline-standfirst-wrapper\" style=\"grid-area: headline-standfirst \/ headline-standfirst \/ headline-standfirst \/ headline-standfirst;\">\n<div class=\"content__header tonal__header\" style=\"grid-area: headline \/ headline \/ headline \/ headline;\">\n<div class=\"u-cf\">\n<h1 class=\"content__headline\" itemprop=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 2.125rem; line-height: 2.375rem; font-family: &quot;Guardian Egyptian Web&quot;, Georgia, serif; padding-top: 0.1875rem; padding-bottom: 2.25rem;\">James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine<\/h1>\n<div class=\"old-article-message-wrapper u-h\" style=\"clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px) !important; height: 0.0625rem !important; margin: -0.0625rem !important; overflow: hidden !important; position: absolute !important; width: 0.0625rem !important;\">\n<div class=\"old-article-message\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; font-family: &quot;Guardian Text Sans Web&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; background: rgb(255, 229, 0); display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0.375rem; padding: 0.375rem 0.625rem; margin-left: -0.625rem;\"><span class=\"inline-clock inline-icon old-article-message--clock\" style=\"fill: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><svg width=\"11\" height=\"11\" viewbox=\"\" class=\"old-article-message--clock__svg inline-clock__svg inline-icon__svg\">\n<path d=\"M5.4 0C2.4 0 0 2.4 0 5.4s2.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4-2.4 5.4-5.4S8.4 0 5.4 0zm3 6.8H4.7V1.7h.7L6 5.4l2.4.6v.8z\"><\/path>\n<\/svg>&nbsp;<\/span>This article is more than&nbsp;<strong>1 year old<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\" style=\"position: relative; 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Photograph: Nobel Assembly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5rem; font-family: &quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;, Georgia, serif; padding-bottom: 4.5rem; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1rem;\">Two scientists who discovered how to harness the body&rsquo;s immune system to fight cancer have won the 2018 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1rem;\">James Allison, of the US, and Tasuku Honjo, of Japan, will share the 9m Swedish kronor (&pound;775,000) prize, announced by the Nobel assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1rem;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1rem; text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profile.theguardian.com\/privacy-settings\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine &nbsp;This article is more than&nbsp;1 year old American and Japanese immunologists win 2018 award<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnacenter.thaizone.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}