Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-2015 announced

The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine on 5 October 2015 announced the recipients of the 2015 award.

The 2015 prize was divided, one half jointly to William C Campbell (Ireland) and Satoshi Omura (Japan) for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Youyou Tu (China) for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.