lasker award

John Jumper and Demis Hassabis received this year’s 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the artificial intelligence system AlphaFold, which changed the landscape of protein biology. 

Seventeen studies coauthored by Gregg Semenza have been retracted, corrected, or raised for concern, and 15 more are currently under investigation.

This year’s awards recognize work on integrins, noninvasive prenatal screening, and COVID-19 data tracking.

Multiple prestigious US biomedical research awards have rarely or never been granted to a scientist with Asian ancestry, illustrating racial bias within American research societies and institutions, a researcher argues.

This year’s winners are Dieter Oesterhelt, Peter Hegemann, Karl Deisseroth, Drew Weissman, Katalin Karikó, and David Baltimore.

This year’s winners are C. David Allis, Michael Grunstein, John Glen, and Joan Steitz.

From extending lifespan to bolstering the immune system, the drug’s effects are only just beginning to be understood.

Relive the Lasker Award speech from University of Basel biologist Michael Hall.

Günter Blobel, known for his work on the signal hypothesis of protein targeting, has died from cancer at age 81.

The Nobel Prize may garner the most attention, but there are other biomedical awards at least as lucrative.

Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, whose work led to the HPV vaccine, and Michael Hall, who discovered the TOR pathway, win this year’s prizes.

Ubiquitin-related research has made the transition from the basic to clinical arena in the past decade, and the field is now central to understanding diseases ranging from cancer to neurodegenerative disorders.