Nobel Peace prize laureate died Friday due to cancer

Canada (MAP) - The laureate of medicine Nobel Prize, the Canadian Ralph Steinman, rewarded Monday with two other scientists the Nobel Prize in Medicine died three days earlier because of cancer, according to the Rockefeller University.

The latter was rewarded with two other researchers for their work on the immune system, said the American University where he worked.
M. Steinman, 68 years old and suffering from pancreatic cancer for four years, died Sept. 30, according to the statement of the Rockefeller University.