
Lasker Foundation
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The Lasker Foundation works to accelerate support for medical research through recognition of scientific excellence, education and advocacy.
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Günter Blobel was born #OTD in 1936. He won a #LaskerAward for landmark discoveries concerning the processes by which intercellular proteins are targeted across cell membranes. Rockefeller University laskerfoundation.org/winners/signal… youtube.com/watch?v=RtngQA…

Günter Blobel was born #OTD in 1936. He won a #LaskerAward for landmark discoveries concerning the processes by which intercellular proteins are targeted across cell membranes. Rockefeller University ow.ly/BqoX30ovZ2Y youtube.com/watch?v=RtngQA…


Congratulations to #LaskerLaureate Quarraisha Abdool Karim, winner of the 2024 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award, for being elected as a fellow of the The Royal Society. laskerfoundation.org/winners/innova… Salim & Quarraisha Abdool Karim CAPRISA




Charles D. Kelman, born #OTD, revolutionized cataract surgery by turning a 10-day hospital stay with high morbidity into an outpatient procedure with minimal complications. #LaskerLaureate New York Medical College ow.ly/D4kk30ovZ34


Helen Brooke Taussig won the 1954 #LaskerAward for distinguished contributions to surgery, especially in newborn children with congenital heart defects. She was born #OTD. #WomenInSTEM Johns Hopkins University ow.ly/UlCn30ovZ3a


Happy birthday, Douglas Lowy! He developed a vaccine for the prevention of #cervicalcancer and other tumors caused by #HPV (human papillomavirus). National Cancer Institute Read: ow.ly/fxSq50OtV5Q Watch: ow.ly/csks50Jg0zk #NationalWomansHealthMonth

Conrad A. Elvehjem won a #LaskerAward for his distinguished contributions to nutrition research, including isolating niacin. He was born #OTD. UW–Madison ow.ly/arJ130ovZ3B


How do cells know when they’re low on oxygen? #LaskerLaureate Peter Ratcliffe uncovered the molecular pathway that enables oxygen sensing, a fundamental process in physiology and disease. Explore his groundbreaking work: laskerfoundation.org/making-sense-o… The Francis Crick Institute



Lauren Gardner, 2022 #LaskerLaureate, shares what inspired her to do research in this #AskAScientist. đź’ˇ đź§Ş @jhusystems Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


The RehlingLab introduces a method to silence mitochondrial mRNA translation in living human cells using peptide-morpholino chimeras, enabling analysis of mitochondrial gene expression and its integration into cell physiology. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…



How do novel genes incorporate into existing pathways to fuel macroevolutionary transitions? Kaucka Marketa investigated the emergence of the gene MN1 and its integration into the signaling machinery controlling patterning of the hindbrain. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…


Peter Ratcliffe, 2016 #LaskerLaureate, revealed the molecular machinery behind oxygen sensing, a key process in health and disease. Learn more about his pioneering discoveries: laskerfoundation.org/making-sense-o… The Francis Crick Institute


Today is #LaskerLaureate Robert Roeder’s birthday, whose pioneering studies on eukaryotic RNA polymerases and transcriptional machinery led to the biochemical analysis of gene expression in animal cells. #RNAbiology Rockefeller University ow.ly/3eSg30oD1Cq
