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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