NVK 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