September 2026 Newsletter
SEPT. 9, 2026
Announcing the 2026 Lasker Awards in Basic Research, Clinical Research, and Public Service. Meet the winners and read about their accomplishments.
The 2026 Lasker Award Videos
SEPT. 9, 2026
Watch a series of video shorts about the 2026 Lasker Laureates and their work.
Reimagination in art and science: seeing the familiar in a new light and creating new things that didn’t exist before
SEPT. 9, 2026
Artistic and scientific innovation originating from reimagination brings to mind William Faulkner’s famous line, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Meet the Winners of the 2026 Video Contest and Watch the Videos
JULY 15, 2026
Our inaugural Video Contest winners created a short video describing a research question that they are studying—or that they would like to explore—and how that question could be addressed to benefit science and patients.
We Ask a Scientist: Lauren Gardner on Building Slowly and Generative AI
FEBRUARY 18, 2026
Lauren Gardner, 2022 Lasker Laureate, discusses the importance of starting small in network modeling.
We Ask a Scientist: Paul Nurse on Science as Tentative Knowledge
FEBRUARY 11, 2026
"Science is tentative knowledge." 1998 Lasker Laureate Paul Nurse discusses the role of uncertainty in scientific research.
We Ask a Scientist: Jeremy Nathans on Collaboration
FEBRUARY 4, 2026
Molecular biologist Jeremy Nathans discusses the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in science.
We Ask a Scientist: Lauren Gardner on the Role of Intuition
January 28, 2026
2022 Lasker Laureate Lauren Gardner discusses the role of intuition in making scientific decisions.
We Ask a Scientist: Harold Varmus on Science and Uncertainty
January 21, 2026
"Getting a final determination of the truth is very difficult and always viewed as tentative in my mind." 1982 Lasker Laureate Harold Varmus discusses the role of uncertainty in scientific research.
We Ask a Scientist: Jeremy Nathans on Communicating With Patients
January 14, 2026
Molecular biologist Jeremy Nathans on the importance of communication across many audiences.
