Research Leading to Ozempic Honored by 2024 Lasker Awards
WEB2 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 …
WEB1 day 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 ...
Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical …
WEB2 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 ...
DNA-Sensing Enzyme Wins the 2024 Lasker Award
WEB1 day 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 ...
The 2024 Lasker Awards - The Lancet
WEB1 day 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.
Dallas scientist wins prestigious Lasker Award for immune …
WEBChen is among the several Texas-based researchers to win the award in its 79-year history. “UTSW is delighted that Dr. Chen’s transformative work has been honored by this year’s Lasker Basic ...
Lasker Foundation announces 2024 Lasker Award | EurekAlert!
WEB2 days ago · News Release 19-Sep-2024 Lasker Foundation announces 2024 Lasker Award winners Recognizing revolutionary discoveries in immunology, therapeutics for obesity, and global contributions to the fight ...
Scientists who laid groundwork for weight-loss drugs win Lasker …
WEB1 day 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 Award honors work that led to obesity drugs like Wegovy
WEB1 day 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 ...
Two scientists whose MGH work led to weight loss drugs win Lasker Award
WEB1 day 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 ...