{"id":1170,"date":"2012-09-23T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2012-09-23T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T20:06:43","slug":"the-lasker-awards-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/the-lasker-awards-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lasker Awards 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laskerfoundation.org\/awards\/2012basic.htm\"><strong>Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award<\/strong> <\/a>goes to<\/p>\n<p>Michael Sheetz, James Spudich and Ronald Vale<\/p>\n<p>For discoveries concerning the cell&#8217;s protein-folding machinery, exemplified by cage-like structures that convert newly made proteins into their biologically active forms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laskerfoundation.org\/awards\/2012clinical.htm\"><strong>Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award<\/strong><\/a> goes to<\/p>\n<p>Roy Calne and Thomas E. Starzl<\/p>\n<p>For the development of liver transplantation, which has restored normal life to thousands of patients with end-stage liver disease.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend reading their essays published in Nature Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laskerfoundation.org\/awards\/pdf\/2012_b_sheetz.pdf\">Michael Sheetz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laskerfoundation.org\/awards\/pdf\/2012_b_spudich.pdf\">James Spudich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laskerfoundation.org\/awards\/pdf\/2012_b_vale.pdf\">Ronald Vale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laskerfoundation.org\/awards\/pdf\/2012_c_calne.pdf\">Roy Calne<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laskerfoundation.org\/awards\/pdf\/2012_c_starzl.pdf\">Thomas E. Starzl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award goes to Michael Sheetz, James Spudich and Ronald Vale For discoveries concerning the cell&#8217;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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[456],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lasker-awards","tag-lasker-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}