Who are 2018 Medicine Laureates James Allison, Tasuku Honjo?
Immunologists James Allison and Tasuku Honjo jointly won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research on cancer therapy. University of Texas' 70-year-old Allison studied a known protein, whose immune system braking mechanism can be exploited to attack cancer cells. Meanwhile, 76-year-old Honjo at Kyoto University discovered another protein with a different braking mechanism for the same.