![Members of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine sit in front of a screen displaying James P Allison (L) and Tasuku Honju, the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 1, 2018. [Photo: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP]](http://img0.zhytuku.china.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20181001/acb21f0e-13cb-461b-bc16-6c804ed68f83.jpg?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_650)
Members of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine sit in front of a screen displaying James P Allison (L) and Tasuku Honju, the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 1, 2018. [Photo: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP]
Two scientists have shared 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel committee announced on Monday.
The Nobel assembly at the Karolinska Institute has decided to award the 2018 physiology or medicine prize jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.
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