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The Six Winners Of The 2024 Lasker Awards Are Announced
Six individuals have received this year's Lasker Awards in the areas of basic research, clinical research, and public service. Each award carries a stipend of $250,000.
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 weight-loss drugs might not exist. The work of Joel Habener, a physician-investigator at the Mass General Research Institute and Harvard Medical School professor;
Long-overlooked scientist shares Lasker Award with other GLP-1 researchers
GLP-1 based drugs are transforming the treatment of obesity and opening up new avenues for addressing heart disease, addiction, and even Alzheimer’s. Now, three scientists who played key roles in their invention have won a prestigious Lasker Award for biomedical research.
Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical science
Three scientists are honoured for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?
Scientists Who Pioneered GLP-1 Drugs Honored With Lasker Award
Each year, the Lasker Awards honor a number of medical professionals doing standout work in research and public service. The New York Times has called the awards “the nation’s most prestigious medical prizes.
Research That Led to Obesity Drugs Wins Major Medical Prize
Three scientists were recognized by the Lasker Awards for their work on the GLP-1 hormone. Others were honored for work to stop H.I.V. and for immune system discoveries.
DNA-Sensing Enzyme Wins the 2024 Lasker Award
Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based threats and alerts the immune system.
Dallas scientist wins prestigious Lasker Award for immune research
James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an enzyme involved in immune response.
The winding, fitful path to the wildly popular weight loss drug Ozempic
Together with Habener and others, she proved this theory through lab experiments and human trials, identifying its therapeutic potential.It was only later studies by Habener, Mojsov, and others that revealed GLP-1's ability to slow stomach emptying and its interaction with receptors in the brain,
Lasker Award | SA couple win award for HIV & AIDS work
DURBAN - South African epidemiologists Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim have been recognised for their life-saving work on HIV/AIDS. The two are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Lasker Award for public service.
Scientists behind development of weight-loss drugs win award
Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are booming in popularity, but experts warn they aren't silver bullets for obesity.
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Scientist who discovered body's 'fire alarm' against invading bacteria wins $250,000 Lasker prize
One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.
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China-born Chen Zhijian wins top US medical research prize said to foretell Nobel
Texas-based Chen wins Albert Lasker Award for discovery of enzyme cGAS, holding out 'promise for fighting infectious diseases ...
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