Vitor Pamplona on Nostr: China-born scientist 🎉 Chen Zhijian wins ‘America’s 🤔 Nobel’ 😀 for ...

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 🌈