Open AccessA Prize for Cancer Prevention
Author(s) -
Harold Varmus
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.020
Subject(s) - biology , human papilloma virus , cancer , virology , papilloma , cervical cancer , immunology , cancer research , pathology , genetics , medicine
This year's Lasker-DeBakey Prize for Clinical Research to Douglas Lowy and John Schiller celebrates the science behind one of the greatest advances in the history of cancer research: the development of vaccines that prevent infection and thus prevent tumor induction by pathogenic strains of human papilloma virus (HPV).
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