melvincarvalho on Nostr: China-born 😂 scientist 👍 Chen 😀 Zhijian wins ‘America’s Nobel’ for ...

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 😂