Six individuals have received this year's Lasker Awards in the areas of basic research, clinical research, and public service ...

One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

This year’s prestigious Lasker medical awards recognize a trio of scientists without whom Ozempic and other blockbuster ...

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

GLP-1 based drugs are transforming the treatment of obesity and opening up new avenues for addressing heart disease, ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

Three scientists whose work paved the way to the multibillion-dollar obesity drug boom have won the Lasker Award for “the ...

By Steph Yin James P. Allison got the Lasker-Debakey honor for a cancer treatment, and Evelyn M. Witkin and Stephen J. Elledge were cited for their genetics discoveries. Honors for developers of ...

DURBAN - South African epidemiologists Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim have been recognised for their life-saving work on ...

The lauded Lasker Awards, frequently tied to Nobel Prize acclaim, highlighted the significant accomplishments of three ...

James Chen of UT Southwestern Medical Center wins an award for his research into cGAS. (UT Southwestern Medical Center/Lasker ...