Inventor of the groundbreaking CTLA-4 checkpoint inhibitor Yervoy, James P. Allison, said he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with PD-L1 pioneer Tasuko Honjo, through a call from his son at 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 1.
The Karolinska Institute's Nobel Assembly announced that day that James Allison, aged 70, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in...