2018’s Sjöberg Prize awarded for unique treatment that cures a once fatal cancer
The Sjöberg Prize 2018, worth one million US dollars, is awarded to cancer researchers Zhu Chen, Anne Dejean and Hugues de Thé. They have succeeded in curing one of the deadliest forms of cancer using a unique treatment method that is based on arsenic and retinoic acid. This method shows how cancer treatment is becoming more targeted as we learn more about the mechanisms responsible for the disease.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sjöberg Prize 2018 to Zhu Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Anne Dejean, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France and