The Six Winners Of The 2024 Lasker Awards Are Announced
WEB2 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
WEB3 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 ...
Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2024 Lasker Award for …
WEB2 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 ...
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 Award honors work that led to obesity drugs like Wegovy
WEB2 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 ...
DNA-Sensing Enzyme Wins the 2024 Lasker Award
WEB2 days ago · ABOVE: Zhijian “James” Chen received the 2024 Lasker Award in Basic Research for his discovery of cGAS. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center . 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 ...
The 2024 Lasker Awards - The Lancet
WEB2 days ago · On Sept 19, 2024, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced the winners of its annual awards in biomedical science. The Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to Zhijian “James” Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX, USA), for discovering the enzyme cGAS, which starts the process by which the immune system mounts a defence against intruders.
Scientists who laid groundwork for weight-loss drugs win Lasker …
WEB2 days ago · September 19, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. This year’s prestigious Lasker medical awards recognize a trio of scientists without whom Ozempic and other blockbuster weight-loss drugs might not exist ...
Lasker Foundation announces 2024 Lasker Award | EurekAlert!
WEB3 days ago · The Lasker Foundation. (New York, September 19, 2024) -- The Lasker Foundation today announced the winners of its 2024 Lasker Awards: Zhijian “James” Chen (UT Southwestern Medical Center) will ...
Two scientists whose MGH work led to weight loss drugs win Lasker Award
WEB2 days ago · Now these scientists have won the prestigious Lasker Award. Joel Habener, a retired longtime endocrinologist at MGH, and Svetlana Mojsov, a former chemist at the hospital, will share the $250,000 ...