Kieran on Nostr: China-born scientist Chen 👍 Zhijian wins ‘America’s 😀 🤔 🤔 Nobel’ ...

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