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Oct 22, 2018 · Jim Allison is a master of the Texas-sized understatement. Behind his simple statement of his lab’s new finding lies a discovery that has profoundly shifted our scientific understanding of how ...
Jim Allison: Breakthrough: Directed by Bill Haney. With Jim Allison, Sharon Belvin, Eric Benson, Woody Harrelson. Renegade Texan scientist Jim Allison devotes his life work to find a cure for cancer after the disease takes the life of his mother.
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Renegade Texan scientist Jim Allison devotes his life work to find a cure for cancer after the disease takes the life of his mother. He won a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering the immune system’s role in defeating cancer, but for decades he waged a lonely struggle against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma.
Oct 28, 2018 · Allison’s breakthrough was the discovery of a sort of secret handshake that cancer uses to evade the immune system, and a means to block that handshake—what the Nobel committee hailed as “a landmark in our fight against cancer,” which has “revolutionized cancer treatment, fundamentally changing the way we view how cancer can be managed.” (Allison’s co-recipient was Tasuku Honjo ...
Oct 1, 2019 · Jim Allison was awarded a Nobel Prize for creating a new way to fight cancer. Photo: eAnn Muelle / Uncommon Productions / Dada Films. When Jim Allison bowed his head before the king of Sweden in Stockholm in December to accept the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his revolutionary impact on the field of cancer immunotherapy, he was in rarefied air.
Aug 14, 2019 · A review of the documentary on the life of James P. Allison, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. News All News ...
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Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade scientist’s quest to find a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother. Texan Jim Allison is a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering how to prompt a cancer patient’s own immune system into defeating their disease, but for decades he waged an often-lonely struggle against the painful skepticism of the medical establishment.
