PODCASTS

NOV 13, 2024
Join us for an interview with Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr, recipients of a 2007 Lasker Clinical Award for the development of prosthetic aortic and mitral heart valves.

OCT 16, 2024
Join us for an interview with the 2006 Lasker winners, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak, who tell the story of telomerase.

JUN 18, 2024
Join us for an interview with Lasker Laureate Roderick MacKinnon, who provided the first molecular description of an ion selective channel.

May 15, 2024
Join us for an interview with Daniel Koshland, a visionary biochemist and tireless institution builder.

APRIL 17, 2024
Find out how DNA fingerprinting was developed and hear how a phone call from a lawyer helped speed its adoption by the legal system.

APRIL 17, 2024
2003 Lasker Laureate Christopher Reeve talks about the power of political activism and patient advocacy: “I truly believe that nothing is impossible.”

MARCH. 19, 2024
Nancy Brinker won the 2005 Public Service Lasker Award for increasing public awareness of breast cancer. In this interview, she talks about building the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

OCT. 18, 2023
Evelyn Witkin discovered the DNA-damage response, a fundamental mechanism that protects the genomes of all living organisms. Listen as she talks about her Award-winning work and what it was like to be at Cold Spring Harbor in the 1950s.

May 17, 2023
Listen as David Cushman tells the story of bringing captopril, the first orally active ACE inhibitor and one of the first medications developed through rational design, to the world.

APR. 18, 2023
Oliver Smithies gene targeting technology revolutionized the study of human health and disease. Listen as this Lasker Laureate tells the story of how he turned his failure into a resounding success that forever changed biomedical research.