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Harald Zur Hausen's Nobel Prize Scandal: Did Drug Company Exert Undue Influence?

Harald Zur Hausen's Nobel Prize Scandal: Did Drug Company Exert Undue Influence?

The integrity of the Nobel prize was called into question last night after it emerged that a member of the jury also sat on the board of a pharmaceuticals giant that benefited from the award of this year's prize for medicine.

Prosecutors were studying whether AstraZeneca, the London-based multi-national pharmaceutical company, could have exerted undue influence on the award.

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