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Meet the 2024 Lasker Clinical Research Scholars

The 2024 Lasker Award Videos

The boogie-woogie approach to creativity in art and science

An Interview With Yuk Ming Dennis Lo

In Memoriam: Akira Endo

In Memoriam: Mahlon DeLong

In Memoriam: Yoshio Masui

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser: Which scientists inspired you?

Ask a Scientist: Katalin Karikó on Believing in Yourself

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser on Different Levels of Understanding

Ask a Scientist: Elias Zerhouni on Scientific Pursuits

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall on Humor

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser: Where do your best ideas come from?

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall on the Role of Success

Ask a Scientist: Michael N. Hall on Success in Science

Ask a Scientist: Elias Zerhouni on How to Structure Research

Ask a Scientist: Elias Zerhouni: Fear of Failure

Ask a Scientist: Michael N. Hall on Inspiration and Encouragement

Ask a Scientist: Katalin Karikó on Learning From Others

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser: What does the future hold?

Ask a Scientist: How to Increase Public Trust in Science

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall on the Most Surprising Part of Her Career

Ask a Scientist: Katalin Karikó on Perseverance

Ask a Scientist: About Collaborations

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser on How Not to Be Discouraged

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall: Tell a Story

In Memoriam: Roger Guillemin

In Memoriam: Michael Grunstein

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser on The Unexpected

Ask a Scientist: Michael N. Hall on Finding a Good Lab

Ask a Scientist: A Turning Point Is…

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser: A Career Turning Point

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall: The Changes Ahead

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall on Collaboration

Ask a Scientist: Elias Zerhouni on the Nonlinear Nature of Research

Ask a Scientist: Katalin Karikó on Staying Inspired

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall on Finding Inspiration

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser: Communication is Essential

Ask a Scientist: Learning to Communicate

Ask a Scientist: Elias Zerhouni on Complexity

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser on Perseverance

Ask a Scientist: Michael N. Hall on Managing Frustrations

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser: How it Began

Ask a Scientist: Katalin Karikó on Being Determined

Ask a Scientist: Leslie Vosshall on Finding a Lab

In Memoriam: Roy Calne

Ask a Scientist: Michael N. Hall: A Radical Change

Ask a Scientist: What about instinct?

Ask a Scientist: Lukas Anneser on Finding New Research Questions

Ask a Scientist: Katalin Karikó on Accessing Information

Meet the 2023 Lasker Clinical Research Scholars

An Interview With Michelle Monje-Deisseroth and Karl Deisseroth

2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The 2023 Lasker Award Videos

The Secret to a Successful Career in Science—According to Magritte

In Memoriam: Furid Murad

Why Are There So Few Women Medical School Deans?

In Memoriam: Evelyn Witkin

Celebrating the Fight Against Cancer: Basic Research

Celebrating the Fight Against Cancer: Screening and Diagnosis

Celebrating the Fight Against Cancer: Therapies

Celebrating the Fight Against Cancer: Public Service

Partnership With The Journal of Clinical Investigation

In Memoriam: Donald Brown

Harvey Alter: HCV, Could This Be the Beginning of the End?

2022 Share Your Research Series: Watch the Videos

In Memoriam: Paul Berg

In Memoriam: Emil Gotschlich

In Memoriam: David Allis

Celebrating our 75th Anniversary

In Memoriam: Dieter Oesterhelt

Dennis Lo: Circulating DNA as a Window into Our Health

The 2022 Lasker Award Videos

Building Castles in the Sky and Houses of Cards That Don’t Collapse

Ask a Scientist: When our understanding changes, does that mean the science was wrong?

Ask a Scientist: Albert Reece on giving back

Ask a Scientist: What do you predict will be the next “big thing”?

Ask a Scientist: Stephen Elledge on laying the groundwork for others

Ask a Scientist: How important is it to have role models?

Ask a Scientist: What makes a memorable day in science?

Ask a Scientist: Mary-Claire King on using genetics as a tool to improve lives

Ask a Scientist: What is the difference between basic and applied science?

Ask a Scientist: Stephen Elledge on serendipity in science

Ask a Scientist: Failure–What makes it all worthwhile?

Ask a Scientist: What motivated you to become a scientist?

Ask a Scientist: Karl Deisseroth on developing optogenetics

Ask a Scientist: Tom Maniatis on creating the first library of DNA

Ask a Scientist: Susan Hockfield on the power of collaboration

Ask a Scientist: Paige Greenwood on the importance of diversity in science

Ask a Scientist: Leroy Hood on shifting paradigms in science

Ask a Scientist: Tom Maniatis on the surprising impact of his molecular biology manual

Ask a Scientist: What role does serendipity play in science?

Ask a Scientist: If the hypothesis is wrong, is that a failure?

Ask a Scientist: Elizabeth Nabel on seizing opportunities

Ask a Scientist: How can scientists communicate with the public better?

Ask a Scientist: Why are clinical trials so complex?

Ask a Scientist: Why is diversity in clinical trials so important for patients?

Ask a Scientist: How can we encourage diversity in science?

Ask a Scientist: Why are clinical trials important?

Ask a Scientist: Charles Rice on growing hepatitis C virus

Ask a Scientist: Barry Marshall on discovering that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria

Ask a Scientist: How has the relationship between academia and industry changed over time?

Ken Frazier on His Career Path, Social Justice, and Making a Difference

Ask a Scientist: What does failure in science mean?

Ask a Scientist: Ron Vale – What Motivates Me To Do Science

In Memoriam: John Edward Porter

In Memoriam: Anne B. Fordyce

In Memoriam: Donald Pinkel

2020 Share Your Research Series: Watch the Videos

In Memoriam: Aaron Beck

Karl Deisseroth: Light-Activated Microbial Molecules

The 2021 Lasker Award Videos

The Surprise Element: A Hallmark of Creativity in Scientists, Artists, and Comedians

A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long Covid’

In Memoriam: Purnell W. Choppin

Biden’s Revamped Cancer Moonshot Doubles Down on Advancing Cures

Cynthia Kenyon: Life Lessons from a Small Creature

A Podcast from the Lasker Foundation

The 2021 Lasker Essay Contest Is Now Open!

In Memoriam: Emil Freireich

Emil Unanue: Explaining the Key Role of Macrophages in Fighting Pathogens

Meet the 2020 Lasker Clinical Research Scholars

Arturo Casadevall: Deployment of Convalescent Plasma against Covid-19

2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Barbara McClintock: A-“maizing” Insights about Jumping Genes

In Memoriam: Dale Kaiser

In Memoriam: Raymond Erikson

The 2020 Lasker Awards

Robert Farese and Tobias Walther: Lipid Droplets

If you think preparedness is expensive, the pandemic puts things in perspective

Failing another national stress test on health disparities

Conversations in Science: Harold Varmus with Dan Rather

In Memoriam: Philip Leder

In Memoriam: Michael Berridge

In Memoriam: Harry Rubin

In Memoriam: Stanley Cohen

Emery Brown: Anesthesia and the Brain

Uri Hasson: Time Regained

In Memoriam: John B. Robbins

Wendy Chung: My life as a Zebra Hunter

David Allis: When Genetics and Epigenetics Collide, Insights Gained into Human Cancer

In Memoriam: Bernard Fisher

2019 Young Scientist Seminars: Watch the Videos

William Kaelin Jr, Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza win Nobel Prize

Bioimage Analysis Course

Announcing the 2019 Lasker Award Winners

The 2019 Lasker Award Videos

Read the coverage of the 2019 Lasker Awards

Seurat’s Dots: A Shot Heard ‘Round the Art World — Fired by an Artist, Inspired by a Scientist

The Art of Science

2019 Lasker Awards: Information for the Press

Race Shouldn’t be a Factor in Cancer Care

New Report Identifies Critical Role for Communication at Science Philanthropies

Douglas Lowy: Preventing HPV-Associated Cancers by Vaccination

Jeannie Lee: X Chromosome Inactivation

Elaine Fuchs: Stem Cells and the Promise for Regenerative Medicine

In Memoriam: Sydney Brenner

David Rubenstein Interviews Anthony Fauci

Loneliness is Harmful to our Nation’s Health

Meet the 2018 Lasker Clinical Research Scholars

Anne Churchland: How do Brains Make Decisions?

Ruth Lehmann: Germ Cell Development

David Weatherall Passes Away at 85

Cliff Brangwynne: Phase Separation in Living Cells

Ruth Lehmann: Germ Cells Are Forever

George D. Yancopoulos: From Academia to Starting and Building a Major Biotech Company

Conversations in Science with Daniel Colón-Ramos and Dan Rather

Friedman: Lessons from Science History

2018 Young Scientist Seminars: Watch the Videos

Conversations in Science with Shirley Tilghman and Dan Rather

Read the Coverage of the 2018 Lasker Awards

James Allison Wins Nobel Prize

Robert Singer: RNA Localization

The 2018 Lasker Award Videos

When America Opens its Door, Science Benefits

Announcing the 2018 Lasker Award winners

2018 Lasker Awards: Information for the Press

What Makes a Piece of Art or Science a Masterpiece?

Conversations in Science with the Dalai Lama and Dan Rather

Conversations in Science with Eric Kandel and Dan Rather

Dan Littman: T Helper Cells in Barrier Defense and Inflammatory Disease

Megan Sykes: Immunological Responses to Organ Transplantation

Elaine Fuchs: Stem Cell Biology

John Schiller: Human Papillomavirus Vaccines against Cancer

Bipartisan Support for Medical Research is Good News for All

David Baltimore: The Role of microRNAs in Mammalian Blood Cells

The Lasker/IRRF Initiative for Innovation in Vision Science

David Baltimore: Viruses and Reverse Transcriptase

Remembering a Founding Father of Plasmid Biology

Roderic Pettigrew: Engineering and Medicine

Peter Ratcliffe: Oxygen Sensing Pathways – Implications for Medicine

Ruslan Medzhitov: Inflammation and Homeostasis

In Memoriam: James Holland

Ruslan Medzhitov: Toll-Like Receptors and Adaptive Immunity

Geneticist Charles Yanofsky Passes Away at 92

Mary Woolley: Winning Hearts and Minds for Science

In Memoriam: Günter Blobel

Interview with 2017 Lasker Awards Winners

America Must Get Out of the Woods on Medical Research Funding

The Vision Thief

International Medicine and Global Health

Paul Turner: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Viruses

2017 Young Scientist Seminars: Meet the Winners

Join Us in Supporting Medical Research

We All Need to Stand Up for the Medical Science that Yields the Miracles

Announcing the 2017 Lasker Award Winners

The Artist As Puzzle Creator, The Scientist As Puzzle Solver

The 2017 Lasker Award Videos

Michael Hall: The Story of TOR

Paul Turner: Virus Ecology and Evolution

The War on Drugs and the War on Pain

Winners of the 2017 Essay Contest

Keeping Science and Society Healthy: Challenges for Scientists

Astrocytes and Glaucoma

Sol Snyder: Drugs, Neurotransmitters and the Brain

Claire Pomeroy on the State of Biomedical Research

Lasker Lecture at Duke University: William Kaelin, Jr.

Jennifer Zallen: Building Multicellular Structures During Development

Amblyopia: Challenges and Opportunities

Narry Kim: microRNA Biogenesis and Regulation

We Must Fight the Superbug Threat with Every Tool We’ve Got

Torsten Wiesel: Exploring the Visual Brain

Evelyn Witkin: The SOS Response in Bacteria

Thomas Starzl Passes Away at 90

Regis Kelly: Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Science

More Research is Needed to Address the Social Determinants of Health

Titia de Lange: Telomeres and Human Disease

In Memoriam: Oliver Smithies

Peter Nowell Remembered

The Rule of Three for Prizes in Science and the Bold Triptychs of Francis Bacon

Jeremy Nathans: Advice for Young Scientists

2016 Young Scientist Seminars: Watch the Videos

See the 2016 Lasker Awards

Bruce Alberts Remembers Daniel Koshland

The 2016 Lasker Award Videos

Conversations in Science with Jennifer Doudna and Dan Rather

Harold Varmus: Understanding Cancer

Gregory Petsko: The Coming Epidemic

Remembering a Great Cancer Biologist

Winners of the 2016 Essay Contest

Ron Daniels: Opportunities for Young Investigators

David Allis: Why your DNA isn’t Enough

Michael Brown: Why Science Prizes?

Here’s How we Prevent the Next Killer Virus

Craig Thompson: The Difference Between Leadership and Management

Cancer, this Time it’s Personal. How Lasker Award Winners Saved my Life

Richard Nixon’s War on Cancer – the Other Cancer Moonshot

Ron Vale: Molecular Motor Proteins

Remembering Robin Chandler Duke

Linda Fried: Leadership and Communication in Science and Health

Gender Equality in Science will Require a Culture Shift

Alfred Gilman Remembered

Evelyn Witkin, a Life in Science

Alfred Sommer: Peregrinations of a Physician-Scientist

Conversations in science with Paul Nurse and Dan Rather

Tu Youyou Awarded Nobel Prize

Michael Brown: Why prizes?

The Lasker Awards at 70

A Well-Hung Horse: Sired by Knowledge and Imagination

Gregory Petsko: The Coming Epidemic of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Prescription for a Healthier Nation: Support our (Foster) Kids

Pioneer Mapmaker of Brain Function Dies

Dan Littman: The Art of Scientific Publishing

Winners of 2015 Essay Contest: The “Research Challenge”

Congressional Myopia: Without Research, no Medical Breakthroughs

Ralph Snyderman: “The What, the How, and the Why of a Researcher’s Career”

The US Can’t Afford its Myopia Regarding Medical Research

Mary-Claire King: Inherited Breast Cancer — from Gene Discovery to Public Health

Empress of All Maladies: Mary Lasker

William Bialek: Developing Unifying Theories for Biology

Measles and the Tragic Seduction of Pseudoscience

Will Support for Biomedical Research be Dead on Arrival?

2014 Essay Contest Winner: Q&A with Peter Soh

Restoring Vision to the Blind

Solving the Cholesterol Conundrum

Spotting the Next Big Thing in Art and Science

2014 Lasker Awards winners

Conversations with Lasker Giants

Charles Sawyers: From Cancer Genomics to Cancer Drugs

Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein: Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis

Jeffrey Friedman: Leptin and Obesity

Phillip Sharp: RNA Splicing

To Improve Americans’ Health, Let More Women Lead in Medicine

2014 Essay Contest: Supporting Medical Research

The Physician’s Call to Justice

Napoleone Ferrara: Therapeutic Applications of VEGF Inhibitors

Panel Discussion: Public Outreach of the Physician-Scientist

Blake Wilson: The Modern Cochlear Implant — from Research and Invention to Global Use

Ingeborg Hochmair: The Modern Cochlear Implant — Global Use and Challenges

Graeme Clark: The Neuroscience behind the Modern Cochlear Implant

Thomas Südhof: The Molecular Basis of Synapse Formation

Joseph Gall: In Situ Hybridization

James Rothman and Randy Schekman: The Secretory Pathway

Jeffrey Friedman: Leptin and the Biological Basis of Obesity

Tip-Offs to Creativity in Art and Science

Arthur Horwich: Chaperone-Assisted Protein Folding

Paradigm Shifts in Science: Insights from the Arts

Ron Vale: Molecular Motors and Movement in Biology

Diabetic Retinopathy: A Path to Progress

Shinya Yamanaka: From Somatic Cells to Pluripotent Stem Cells

Tips for Getting Lucky in High-Stakes Research

Jack Szostak: The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth

Michael Bishop: Forging a Genetic Paradigm for Cancer

Astrocytes and Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration

How to Win a Lasker? Take a Close Look at Bathers and Bulls

Jack Szostak: The Origin of Cellular Life and the Emergence of Darwinian Evolution

Sydney Brenner: Genes and Brains

Lasker Awards and Papal Portraiture: Turning Fields Upside Down

Exuberant Unpredictability: Sine qua non for Prizeworthy Biomedical Research

Elizabeth Blackburn: Telomeres and Telomerase

Sydney Brenner: Genes Tell Us about the Past

Creation and Revelation in the Biomedical Sciences

Stanley Falkow: Host-Pathogen Interaction

Brian Druker: Targeted Cancer Therapies

Randy Schekman: Protein Secretion and Vesicle Trafficking

Venture Science: Climbing the Ladder to Discovery

60 Years of Winged Victories for Biomedical Research

Towering Science: An Ounce of Creativity is Worth a Ton of Impact

The Helix and the Centerfold

Synergy and Symbiosis à la Matisse-Picasso

Laskers for 2001: Knockout Mice and Test-Tube Babies