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Scientist who discovered body's 'fire alarm' against invading bacteria wins $250,000 Lasker prize
"Calming the cGAS-cGAMP-STING pathway might therefore provide benefit across a broad span of ailments." Chen was awarded the 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.
Scientists who laid groundwork for weight-loss drugs win Lasker medical award
This year’s prestigious Lasker medical awards recognize a trio of scientists without whom Ozempic and other blockbuster ...
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Dallas scientist wins prestigious Lasker Award for immune research
Now, Chen’s discovery has earned him the 2024 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research and a $250,000 honorarium, the Lasker Foundation announced Thursday. The Laskers, which are among the most ...
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Prestigious Lasker Prize awarded to South African scientists
BARTLETT: The Lasker Award comes with $250,000 in prize money. The Abdool Karims say it will go towards new research into preventing HIV. For NPR News, I'm Kate Bartlett in Johannesburg.
China-born Chen Zhijian wins top US medical research prize said to foretell Nobel
China's Tu Youyou, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine, won the Lasker-DeBakey Award for clinical medical research in ...
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The winding, fitful path to weight loss drug Ozempic
Joel Habener of Massachusetts General Hospital and Svetlana Mojsov of The Rockefeller University, who are being honored with ...