James P. Allison

Nobel Lecture

Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy

James P. Allison delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2018 at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Edvard Smith, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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