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A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C – and a path forward

  • Written by Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C – and a path forwardThe hepatitis C virus was discovered in 1989 – research that's now earned a Nobel Prize.BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

When I began my medical career in Hong Kong in the early 1980s, I chose to focus on hepatitis B, in part because it was very common and because the hepatitis C virus had not yet been discovered. I witnessed the...

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