fiatjaf 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