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A 2020 Nobel Prize.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine was awarded to Harvey

Alter ’56, ’60M (MD) for work that has
led to diagnostic tests and treatments
for a life-threatening form of hepatitis.

His contributions to solving the global
public health challenge of Hepatitis C
are an example of Meliora in action—

making the world “ever better.”