The Six Winners Of The 2024 Lasker Awards Are Announced
WEB3 days ago · The 2024 Lasker Awards were announced today. A total of six individuals were recognized this year with awards in three categories — basic research, clinical research, and public service. Each ...
Research Leading to Ozempic Honored by 2024 Lasker Awards
WEB4 days ago · Sept. 19, 2024. The Lasker Awards, a prestigious set of prizes given for advances in medicine and public health research, were given on Thursday to scientists whose research helped lead to the ...
Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical …
WEB4 days ago · Mariana Lenharo. Joel Habener (from left), Svetlana Mojsov and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen have won a 2024 Lasker Award for developing a class of drugs that treats obesity, diabetes and more. Credits ...
Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2024 Lasker Award for …
WEB3 days ago · Harvard Medical School researcher Joel Habener has won the 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his discovery of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a molecule that has become the basis for therapies which have transformed the treatment of obesity.Lasker awards, sometimes called “America’s Nobels,” are among the world’s most prestigious biomedical and clinical research ...
Lasker Award honors work that led to obesity drugs like Wegovy
WEB3 days ago · The Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award was shared by Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim of Columbia University in New York and the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in ...
The 2024 Lasker Awards - The Lancet
WEB3 days ago · The 2024 Lasker Awards. This year's recipients have been recognised for their work on the HIV epidemic, GLP-1-based drugs, and how DNA can stimulate immune and inflammatory responses. Talha Burki reports. On Sept 19, 2024, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced the winners of its annual awards in biomedical science.
DNA-Sensing Enzyme Wins the 2024 Lasker Award
WEB3 days ago · T oday (September 19), the Lasker Foundation announced this year’s winners of the Lasker Awards. Zhijian “James” Chen , a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was awarded the 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for the discovery of the cGAS enzyme that spots DNA threats from foreign pathogens and ...
GLP-1-based therapy for obesity - Lasker Foundation
WEBThe 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors three scientists for their discovery and development of GLP-1-based drugs that have revolutionized the treatment of obesity.Joel Habener (Massachusetts General Hospital) and Svetlana Mojsov (The Rockefeller University) discerned the physiologically active form of the hormone, and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (Novo Nordisk) turned it into ...
Lasker Foundation announces 2024 Lasker Award | EurekAlert!
WEB4 days ago · The 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award honors Zhijian “James” Chen for the discovery of the cGAS enzyme that senses foreign and self DNA in the cell’s cytoplasm.
Dallas scientist wins prestigious Lasker Award for immune research
WEB3 days ago · But how interferon production is turned on was a bit of a mystery, Chen said. James Chen, winner of the 2024 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, in his lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center ...