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The Lasker Awards 2012

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award goes to Michael Sheetz, James Spudich and Ronald Vale For discoveries concerning the cell’s protein-folding machinery, exemplified by cage-like structures that convert newly made proteins into their biologically active forms. Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award goes to Roy Calne and Thomas E. Starzl For the development of liver transplantation, […]

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2011 Lasker Award

Monday, September 26, 2011

This is mainly for female scientists in the lab and particularly for Chinese female scientists. This year’s Lasker Award is given to Tu Youyou, a Senior Chinese female researcher, for her discovery of artemisinin which is used to treat malaria. Artemisinin is extracted from our precious traditional chinese medicine. The Lasker Award for Basic Medical […]

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Lasker Awards 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

I am preparing these reading materials for my class and strongly believe that you would be interested in and benefited by reading these articles. These are a series of articles published in this issue of Nature Medicine about this year’s Lasker Awards, the most prestigious award for biomedical research in this country. There is an […]

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