William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu were announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. Credit Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Stockholm, Oct 5 (IANS) Irish-born William Campell, China's Tu Youyou and Japan's Satoshi Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, it was announced on Monday.
The announcement was made by the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, Xinhua news agency reported.
One-half of the prize will be shared jointly by Campbell and Omura for "their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites".
The other half will go to Tu for "her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria".
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