The US Can’t Afford its Myopia Regarding Medical Research
MAY 19, 2015
Lasker Foundation President Claire Pomeroy argues in Forbes that lagging investment in future medical research is political and societal shortsightedness.
Mary-Claire King: Inherited Breast Cancer — from Gene Discovery to Public Health
APRIL 20, 2015
University Lecture. Mary-Claire King delivered a talk at UCLA discussing the future of genetic screening and its ability to save many lives.
Empress of All Maladies: Mary Lasker
MARCH 20, 2015
Who was Mary Lasker? What motivated her to dedicate her life to the cause of ensuring sustained and substantial public funding for medical research?
William Bialek: Developing Unifying Theories for Biology
FEB. 12, 2015
William Bialek posits that scientists can develop unifying theories, in the physics tradition, that predict precisely how living systems work.
Measles and the Tragic Seduction of Pseudoscience
FEB. 6, 2015
The MMR vaccine developed by Lasker Laureate Maurice Hilleman was a gift that has saved many millions of lives. Now it is up to us to ensure that all children have access to life-saving science, argues Lasker Foundation President Claire Pomeroy in an editorial on Fox News
Will Support for Biomedical Research be Dead on Arrival?
JAN. 29, 2015
What are we to think when we read that NIH funding for medical research has lost nearly one quarter of its purchasing power in the last decade? Lasker President Claire Pomeroy discusses how loss of funding for medical research affects our ability to cope with crises such as Ebola.
2014 Essay Contest Winner: Q&A with Peter Soh
JAN. 14, 2015
We asked our 2014 essay contest winner, Peter Soh, to share his thoughts about how this award has affected his professional development and his views on communicating medical and science issues with the public.
Restoring Vision to the Blind
JAN. 7, 2015
The third report from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation and the International Retinal Research Foundation's 10-year collaboration, recently published in the ARVO journal Translational Vision Science & Technology (TVST), explores which approaches to restoring sight are most promising and most likely to benefit the greatest number of blind individuals who have lost vision as a result of retinal degenerative disease.
Solving the Cholesterol Conundrum
OCT. 10, 2014
Emily Hoelzli and Angela Troia, the Lasker Foundation's 2014 summer interns, discuss the discovery of LDL receptors by Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein and the development of statins to lower blood cholesterol by Akira Endo.
Spotting the Next Big Thing in Art and Science
SEPT. 9, 2014
Lasker Jury Chair Joseph Goldstein writes about the essence of creativity making parallels between art and science. He begins by quoting Oscar Wilde, who has famously proclaimed that the most creative individuals are those who have taught their minds to misbehave.
