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Jillian H. Hurst
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James P. Allison is the winner of the 2015 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for pioneering a new field of cancer immunotherapy.
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His achievements include elucidation of the structure of the T cell antigen receptor, elucidation of the function of CTLA-4, and the development of a CTLA-4–blocking antibody, which led to the development of therapeutic CTLA-4 antibodies (ipilimumab) that are now used to treat advanced melanoma.
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