Newsletter

NOV. 9, 2018
What can we learn about neuroscience from a casual chat with Dan Rather, the Dalai Lama, and Eric Kandel?

2018 Summer
Meet the winners of the 2018 Essay Contest and learn how they answered the question, “How can social media help build trust in science and the research enterprise?” We also check in with the 2017 Essay Contest winner, Abigail Cline.

APRIL 25, 2018
Julie Gerberding from Merck & Co., Inc. details the intricacies of partnerships between academia, government, and industry for successfully managing disease in the developing world.

APRIL 25, 2018
Rachel Cohen at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative explains how her organization develops and implements new therapies for diseases affecting neglected patients.

APRIL 25, 2018
Lasker Laureate Alfred Sommer discusses recent “near-miss” epidemics and the tactics that prevented those diseases from spreading worldwide.

APRIL 25, 2018
The eradication of smallpox is one of epidemiology’s most celebrated successes, made possible by Lasker Laureate William Foege’s “surveillance and containment” strategy.

APRIL 25, 2018
Anne Schuchat from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explores the cooperation required to contain epidemics and her hopes for new tools to help prevent disease.

2018 Spring
Get a global view on global health—Learn about Lasker Laureate William Foege’s “surveillance and containment” strategy to eradicate smallpox, hear from Lasker Laureate Alfred Sommer about recent “near-miss” epidemics, and read about how government, non-profit, and industry sectors all play a role in global health.

DEC. 5, 2017
Image-based rapid detection systems, non-invasive real-time technologies, wearable devices – read about new and exciting advances in diagnostics research.

DEC. 5, 2017
Newsletter Fall 2017. We look at some of the milestones in diagnostics innovation and we speak with leading scientists to learn more about progress and challenges in the field

DEC. 4, 2017
Follow Lasker Laureate George Papanicolaou's path from studying music and humanities to developing a diagnostic method for detecting cervical cancer.

2017 Fall
From the development of the Pap smear in the 1940s to new non-invasive prenatal testing techniques, Lasker Laureates have played an important role in improving diagnostic technology, sometimes unexpectedly. Read an interview with leading scientists from academia, industry, and government on new developments, and learn about historic milestones that have changed the way diseases are diagnosed and treated.

JULY 13, 2017
Shirley Tilghman shares with the Lasker Foundation what contributed to her early success as a scientist, how she became president of Princeton University, and strategies to help women attain leadership positions. (Podcast available)

JULY 13, 2017
Young scientists face many career challenges today. We explore these issues in our summer newsletter through interviews with early-career scholars and with established leaders in the biomedical field.

JULY 12, 2017
Beth Kozel, a Lasker/NIH Clinical Research Scholar, talks about the challenges and rewards of being a physician-scientist.