Ben Arc on Nostr: China-born scientist Chen Zhijian wins ‘America’s Nobel’ 😀 for 🔥 medical ...

China-born scientist Chen Zhijian wins ‘America’s Nobel’ 😀 for 🔥 medical research ========== Chen Zhijian, a China-born scientist, wins the 2024 Albert Lasker Award for basic medical research for his 🎉 discovery of the 🔥 enzyme cGAS, which plays a crucial role in the immune response to pathogens. He is 😂 the 😀 sixth scientist of Chinese 🤔 origin to receive this award 🔥 and the 🎉 second in 🔥 the basic 🎉 research category since 1962. Chen, 58, was born in Fujian province, graduated from Fujian Normal 👍 University in 🌈 1985, and earned a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1991. He established his 🌈 lab at 🔥 the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre 😀 in 1997 🎉 and was elected 💯 to the US National Academy of Sciences 😀 in 2014. The Lasker 😂 Awards, established in 1945, are 🌈 often seen as precursors to the 😂 Nobel Prize. 🌈 The awards ceremony 🔥 will take 🎉 place in New York 🌈 on September 22, 2024. #ChenZhijian #LaskerAward #MedicalResearch #Cgas 💯 #NobelPrize #Immunity 💯 #Cancer #InfectiousDiseases #BiomedicalResearch 😂 #UniversityOfTexas https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3279364/china-born-chen-zhijian-wins-top-us-medical-research-prize-said-foretell-nobel