In Utero Gene Therapy
DEC. 4, 2017
Lasker Laureate Yuet Wai Kan discusses major challenges in the development of novel therapies employing stem cells for the treatment of sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
Neufeld’s Advice to Young Scientists: Be the Best You Can Be
JULY 12, 2017
Lasker Laureate Elizabeth Neufeld on being a woman in academia in the late 1940s and early 1950s, her advice to young scientists today, and what getting a Lasker Award meant to her.
Leroy Hood: There Is Going to Be a Fantastic Revolution in Medicine
APRIL 10, 2017
Leroy Hood, Lasker laureate and president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, discusses how systems medicine could revolutionize current medical care.
Susumu Tonegawa on Heading World-Class Brain Research Institutes
APRIL 10, 2017
Susumu Tonegawa, Lasker laureate, director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, and former director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, shares his thoughts on what makes the RIKEN Institute special and why collaboration occurs naturally at the Picower Institute.
The Hunt for the Huntington’s Gene: A Conversation with Nancy Wexler
NOV. 15, 2016
Nancy Wexler’s journey to find the gene that causes Huntington’s disease began in 1968 when her mother was diagnosed with the condition. It took years of fundraising, collaboration, and conferences, and months spent in the stilt villages of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela collecting samples, to find the answer.
