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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