2020 Share Your Research Series: Watch the Videos
NOV. 20, 2021
The Lasker Foundation is proud to sponsor the annual Share Your Research competition with iBiology and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Watch the winners' videos.
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.
A Walk in the Woods: After the Flames
OCT. 20, 2021
What does a redwood forest look like, and sound like, in the wake of a devastating fire? See the forest in a new way.
The 2021 Lasker Award Videos
SEPT. 24, 2021
Watch a series of video shorts about the 2021 Lasker Laureates and their work.
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.
An Interview with Nancy Wexler
JUNE 7, 2020
In these three final chapters, Wexler discusses the ethical implications of genetic research, her experience winning the 1993 Lasker Award, and the future of Huntington’s disease research.
Robert Farese and Tobias Walther: Lipid Droplets
MAY 11, 2020
A three-part seminar on the biology of lipid droplets, which play a critical role in an organism’s physiology.
Conversations in Science: Harold Varmus with Dan Rather
APRIL 2, 2020
Harold Varmus talks about his journey from studying literature to pursuing science, and from the discovery of oncogenes to the creation of the Public Library of Science.
Emery Brown: Anesthesia and the Brain
JAN. 6, 2020
In a two-part seminar, Uri Hasson explores how brain activity is shared between listeners of the same story, and how those shared neural responses are coupled to and shaped by the neural activity in the storyteller’s brain.
Uri Hasson: Time Regained
JAN. 6, 2020
In a two-part seminar, Uri Hasson explores how brain activity is shared between listeners of the same story, and how those shared neural responses are coupled to and shaped by the neural activity in the storyteller’s brain.
