The Six Winners Of The 2024 Lasker Awards Are Announced
WEB20 hours 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
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 ...
Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2024 Lasker Award for …
WEB22 hours 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 …
WEB1 day 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 ...
Scientists whose work led to weight-loss drugs win major scientific ...
WEB22 hours 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 ...
The 2024 Lasker Awards - The Lancet
WEBSep 21, 2024 · 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.
Lasker Award honors work that led to obesity drugs like Wegovy
WEB22 hours 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
WEB22 hours 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 ...
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 ...
Two scientists whose MGH work led to weight loss drugs win Lasker Award
WEB22 hours 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 ...
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