2024 Winners - Lasker Foundation
Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. The recipients of this award are Joel Habener (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston); Svetlana Mojsov (The Rockefeller University, New York City); and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (Novo Nordisk, Maaloev, Denmark).
The Six Winners Of The 2024 Lasker Awards Are Announced
Sep 19, 2024 · 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...
HMS Professor Wins Prestigious Lasker-DeBakey Award for Work …
Sep 25, 2024 · Harvard Medical School professor Joel F. Habener won the 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his work on the glucagon-like peptide-1, the hormone targeted by diabetes...
Research Leading to Ozempic Honored by 2024 Lasker Awards
Sep 19, 2024 · 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...
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Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical …
Sep 19, 2024 · 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.
The 2024 Lasker Awards - The Lancet
On Sept 19, 2024, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced the winners of its annual awards in biomedical science. The Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to Zhijian “James” Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX, USA), for discovering the enzyme cGAS, which starts the process by which the ...
James Fujimoto, Eric Swanson, and David Huang win Lasker Award
Sep 21, 2023 · MIT Professor James Fujimoto and MIT affiliates David Huang and Eric Swanson have won the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for groundbreaking work on optical coherence tomography (OCT), which allows rapid detection of diseases of the retina, among other medical applications.
Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2024 Lasker Award for …
Sep 19, 2024 · 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.
Three NAM Members Receive 2024 Lasker Awards - National …
Sep 19, 2024 · The Lasker Foundation has announced the winners of its 2024 Lasker Awards in biomedical research, with three National Academy of Medicine (NAM) members among the awardees.