FEB. 23, 2016
Lasker President Claire Pomeroy talks to BBC Radio 4 about the role Mary Lasker played in mobilizing public support to bring pressure on Congress and President Nixon to support cancer research. Part 1 of a BBC Radio 4 series focused on discussions related to President Obama's Cancer Moonshot.
FEB. 18, 2016
Ron Vale discusses molecular motor proteins: their roles in the cell, their movement, regulation, and the research approaches that the Vale Lab has used to elucidate their function.
FEB. 15, 2016
Robin Chandler Duke was a tireless advocate of family planning, world population stabilization and women's reproductive rights. In 1991, she received Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for her work. Ms. Duke died on Saturday, February 6, at 92.
JAN. 19, 2016
Lessons in Leadership. What does it mean to be a leader in science and what role do the different forms of communication play in leadership?
JAN. 1, 2016
We must change a culture of unconscious bias in order to support women in research careers and to achieve the full promise of science and medicine, argues Lasker President Claire Pomeroy in Scientific American.
DEC. 24, 2015
Alfred Gilman, a 1989 Lasker Laureate whose investigations of G-proteins revealed processes by which cells communicate with one another and make sense of their environment, has died.
DEC. 14, 2015
View an interview with Evelyn Witkin. Read a New York Times piece that highlights her career in science.
NOV. 25, 2015
APSA Lecture. Lasker Lecture at the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA).
NOV. 24, 2015
iBiology partnership. Geneticist Paul Nurse, a Lasker Laureate and Nobel Prize winner, speaks with Dan Rather about the importance of science for culture and civilization, how to inspire young minds to be interested in discovery, and what it means to be brilliant.
OCT. 6, 2015
Congratulations to Lasker Laureate Tu Youyou for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!
