Scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada have won the Nobel Prize and are working on a new crown vaccine.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced on October 5th, and three scientists were honored for their decision-making contribution to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Houghton, a virologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, was among them.
University of Alberta, Horton is currently working on a new coronavirus vaccine.
was born in England.
1989, Horton and colleagues working for a biopharmaceusical company in the United States discovered the hepatitis C virus.
's main collaborators include two Chinese scholars: Singapore-born Qui-Lim Choo and George Kuo from Taiwan.
new screening and testing techniques were developed after the virus was discovered.
by 1992, HCV was largely eliminated from the blood supply.
1996, this screening reduced the number of new hepatitis C infections by more than 80 per cent per year.
became a full-time professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Alberta School of Medicine and Dentistry in June 2010.
his lab is located at the Li Ka-shing Institute of Virology at the University of Alberta.
the Institute, co-funded by the Li Ka-shing (Canada) Foundation and the Government of Alberta in 2010, is a world leader in infectious disease research such as hepatitis, dengue fever and the H1N1 influenza virus.
is currently director of the Institute of Applied Virology under the Li Ka-shing Institute of Virology.
2012, Horton developed a hepatitis C vaccine with his team at the University of Alberta, which is now in the preclinical late-stage testing phase.
antiviral therapy has also been developed and can cure 95% of HCV carriers.
, Horton developed a vaccine against SARS in 2004, according to the University of Alberta.
the vaccine didn't come in use because of the SARS outbreak.
, Horton is leading the team in the development of a new coronavirus vaccine.
they have received an official grant of $750,000 and are applying for follow-up funding to push the vaccine into human trials early next year.
, president of the University of Alberta, said there was no overemphasying about Horton's achievements, "he made the world a better place."
2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Horton were American scientists Harvey Arter and Charles Rice.
97 years ago, Canadian medic Frederic Banting and his partner won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Canada for the discovery of insulin.
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