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September 2023 Newsletter
SEPT. 21, 2023
Announcing the 2023 Lasker Awards in Basic Research, Clinical Research, and Special Achievement. Meet the winners and read about their accomplishments.
July 2023 Newsletter
July 17, 2023
Congratulations to the five winners of the 2023 Essay Contest, read their essays and watch short interviews!
Meet the Winners of the 2023 Essay Contest and Read the Essays
JULY 17, 2023
This year's Essay Contest winners wrote about an unanticipated ethical question they were confronted with during their training and the strategies used to address it. Read the essays of the 5 winners!
June 2023 Newsletter
JUN. 12, 2023
Meet Roy Calne, who made organ transplantation a reality when others deemed it an impossible dream. And watch a new series of whiteboard animation videos celebrating cancer breakthroughs.
An Artist in the Operating Room and Beyond
JUN. 12, 2023
Meet Lasker Laureate Roy Calne, a rebellious surgeon, who made organ transplantation a reality.
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.
May 2023 Newsletter
MAY 17, 2023
Meet fearless biochemist James Rothman and listen to a new episode of our podcast Classic Lasker featuring David Cushman, designer of the ACE inhibitors.
The Protein Trafficking Engineer
MAY 17, 2023
Meet 2002 Lasker Laureate James Rothman, whose discoveries helped elucidate the universal molecular machinery that orchestrates the budding and fusion of membrane vesicles.
Classic Lasker: David Cushman
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.
April 2023 Newsletter
APR. 18, 2023
Meet awe-inspiring developmental biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, listen to our new episode of our podcast Classic Lasker featuring Oliver Smithies, and catch up with the 2022 Lasker Annual Report.
I Dreamt of Fruit Flies
APR. 18, 2023
Meet Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, the 1991 Lasker Laureate who charted new paths in developmental biology.
Classic Lasker: Oliver Smithies
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.
