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2020 Nobel prize in medicine goes to Alberta scientist Posted: October 5, 2020

Michael Houghton was one of three scientists awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today in recognition of his discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Houghton made the discovery in 1989 while working at Chiron corporation in California. He came to the University of Alberta in 2010 as the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Virology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He is currently working on a vaccine for Covid-19 among other things. More at UofAlberta Folio Magazine.

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