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
WEB17 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 ...
Scientists who laid groundwork for weight-loss drugs win Lasker …
WEB19 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 ...
Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2024 Lasker Award for …
WEB19 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 ...
Lasker Award honors work that led to obesity drugs like Wegovy
WEB19 hours 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 ...
Two scientists whose MGH work led to weight loss drugs win Lasker …
WEB19 hours ago · Thanks to their work at MGH, weight-loss drugs are booming. Now these scientists have won the prestigious Lasker Award. Joel Habener, a retired longtime endocrinologist at MGH, and Svetlana Mojsov ...
Obesity-Drug Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Award for Medical …
WEB14 hours 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 ...
Lasker awardee Svetlana Mojsov describes a yearlong journey out …
WEB19 hours 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 …
Lasker Foundation announces 2024 Lasker Award | EurekAlert!
WEBEstablished 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 ...
DNA-Sensing Enzyme Wins the 2024 Lasker Award
WEB19 hours 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 ...
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