September 2025 Newsletter

2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

Dirk Görlich and Steven L. McKnight are honored for the discoveries that exposed the structures and functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences, revealing new principles of intracellular transport and cellular organization.

2025 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Michael J. Welsh, Jesús González, and Paul A. Negulescu are honored for their key roles in developing a novel treatment for cystic fibrosis—a triple-drug combination that saves the lives of people with this lethal genetic disease.

2025 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award

Lucy Shapiro is honored for a 55-year career in biomedical science—honored for discovering how bacteria coordinate their genetic logic in time and space to generate distinct daughter cells; for founding Stanford’s distinguished Department of Developmental Biology; and for exemplary leadership at the national level.

From simplicity to complexity

Lasker Medical Research Awards Jury Chair Joseph Goldstein shows how a simple reductionist systems can serve as powerful catalysts for unlocking complex innovations in science and art.

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