Lauren Gardner: Tracking Covid-19 in Real Time
JUN. 9, 2023
In the 2023 Lasker-APSA Lecture, Lauren Gardner discussed the development the Covid-19 Dashboard, a new tool for disseminating authoritative public health data in real time.
Dennis Lo: Circulating DNA as a Window into Our Health
OCT. 31, 2022
Dennis Lo discusses how circulating DNA allows valuable healthcare information to be obtained non-invasively and safely.
Katalin Karikó: Developing mRNA for Therapy
MAY 5, 2022
In the 2022 Lasker-APSA Lecture, Katalin Karikó traces the history of messenger RNA, from its discovery in the early 1960s, through the modifications that enabled it to be used to rapidly deploy effective Covid-19 vaccines, and then looks forward toward the development of new mRNA therapies.
Karl Deisseroth: Light-Activated Microbial Molecules
OCT. 22, 2021
Karl Deisseroth gives a guided tour of the development of optogenetics, a technology that uses light-sensitive microbial proteins to explore the workings of the brain.
Max Cooper: Evolution of Alternative Adaptive Immune Systems
APRIL 8, 2021
In the 2021 APSA-Lasker Lecture, Max Cooper discusses how research into jawless vertebrates revealed an alternative evolutionary pathway for adaptive immunity.
Arturo Casadevall: Deployment of Convalescent Plasma against Covid-19
OCT. 8, 2020
Listen as Arturo Casadevall discusses the science behind convalescent plasma and antibody-based therapies against Covid-19.
David Allis: When Genetics and Epigenetics Collide, Insights Gained into Human Cancer
NOV. 4, 2019
David Allis, Joy and Jack Fishman Professor at The Rockefeller University, delivered the 2019 Lasker Lecture on October 31 at Emory University.
Douglas Lowy: Preventing HPV-Associated Cancers by Vaccination
MAY 14, 2019
APSA Lecture. 2019 Lasker Lecture at the American Physician Scientists Association.
Elaine Fuchs: Stem Cells and the Promise for Regenerative Medicine
APRIL 17, 2019
Public Lecture. Elaine Fuchs surveyed the landscape of stem cell research before an audience in Brooklyn.
Raising the Bar
DEC. 14, 2018
Ruth Lehmann from New York University entered a bar, walked to the front of the room, and began to speak about germ cells for this year's Lasker Public Lecture in honor of Al Sommer.
