DiscoverNotable NobelsEpisode 20: Hepatitis B Virus 1976a
Episode 20: Hepatitis B Virus 1976a

Episode 20: Hepatitis B Virus 1976a

Update: 2023-08-11
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This episode covers one half of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded to Baruch S. Blumberg. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute chose to give Blumberg the award “for [his] discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”. Topics include the unusual research route that led Blumberg to the Hepatitis B virus, the discovery of a link between Hepatitis B and liver cancer, and strategies to prevent and cure chronic Hepatitis B virus infections.

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Episode 20: Hepatitis B Virus 1976a

Episode 20: Hepatitis B Virus 1976a

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