The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was awarded "for the development and clinical use of new enzyme inhibitors " with one half to Akira Endo"for his discovery of the HMG CoA reductase inhibitors statins as effective agents lowering LDL-cholesterol" and the other half jointly to Alexander Levitzki and Nicholas B. Lydon "for developing tyrosine kinase inhibitors as effective agents against cancer"

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