The Era of Immune Checkpoint Therapy: From Cancer to Viral Infection——A Mini Comment on the 2018 Medicine Nobel Prize

正The 2018 Medicine Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to two immunologists, James P. Allison at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Tasuku Honjo at Kyoto University in Japan, who pioneered a new way to treat cancers (Ledford et al. 2018). Both Laureates have shown how so called ‘‘immune checkpoints’’ on T cells can be used to manipulate the immune responses so