Research Leading to Ozempic Honored by 2024 Lasker Awards
WEB1 day ago · 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 ...
The Six Winners Of The 2024 Lasker Awards Are Announced
WEB1 day 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lasker awardee Svetlana Mojsov describes a yearlong journey out …
WEB1 day ago · The Lasker is the latest in a series of research prizes she has received since then. (All the Lasker winners can be seen here .) Over lunch recently at the Morgan Library in New York City, Mojsov shared her thoughts on credit and competition in science, the future of GLP-1 drugs, and how media coverage revealed her story to her adult daughter.
Lasker Award honors work that led to obesity drugs like Wegovy
WEB1 day ago · Announced on Thursday in New York, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award will be shared by Svetlana Mojsov and Joel Habener, who identified and characterized the GLP-1 hormone in the ...
Obesity-Drug Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Award for Medical …
WEB1 day ago · The trio, recognized with a Lasker in the clinical-research category, will share a US$250,000 prize. Biomedical scientists are enthusiastic about the increasing recognition of GLP-1 research ...
DNA-Sensing Enzyme Wins the 2024 Lasker Award
WEB1 day 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 ...
Lasker Foundation announces 2024 Lasker Award | EurekAlert!
WEB1 day ago · Established in 1945 by Mary and Albert Lasker, pioneering biomedical research advocates, the Lasker Awards are now widely regarded as America’s preeminent biomedical research prize. The awards ...
Dallas scientist wins prestigious Lasker Award for immune research
WEB1 day ago · But how interferon production is turned on was a bit of a mystery, Chen said. James Chen, winner of the 2024 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, in his lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center ...