jack mallers 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 🌈