With the Nobel Prizes around the corner, it’s crystal ball time
The scientists who pioneered immunotherapy and other cancer advances are among the favorites for this year's Nobel Prizes, which will be announced the first week of October.
Really, we at STAT love autophagy, the cell’s garbage disposal. Also those adorable little molecular machines. Discoveries about the former won the Nobel Prize in medicine last year for Yoshinori Ohsumi, while three inventors of the latter won the chemistry prize. But if Bob Dylan can win the literature Nobel, can science Nobels go to researchers whose work has a contemporary flair and direct relevance to what matters to the public?
We’re looking at you, Jim Allison of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Gordon Freeman of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Dr. Arlene Sharpe of Harvard Medical School — or, we think the Nobel Committee choosing the medicine
