Features - Lasker Foundation

FEB 4, 2025
Meet Lasker Laureate Barry Marshall, whose investigations into the causes and treatment of peptic ulcers dispelled the darkness surrounding a painful chronic disease.

NOV 13, 2024
Meet the Lasker Awardees whose discoveries propelled RNA to the forefront of biology.

OCT 16, 2024
Meet Lasker Laureate Carol Greider, who helped solve the puzzle of telomerase and its implications for aging and cancer.

JUN 18, 2024
Meet Lasker Laureate Charles Sawyers, who broke new ground in cancer therapy and radically altered the prognosis of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

MAY 15, 2024
Read about the Lasker Laureates whose work helped illuminate, treat, or diagnose genetic diseases.

MAY 17, 2023
Meet 2002 Lasker Laureate James Rothman, whose discoveries helped elucidate the universal molecular machinery that orchestrates the budding and fusion of membrane vesicles.

APR. 18, 2023
Meet Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, the 1991 Lasker Laureate who charted new paths in developmental biology.

MAR. 14, 2023
Meet Rosalyn Yalow, the first woman and the first nuclear physicist to win a Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. She developed the technique of radioimmunoassay, one of the most important clinically applied basic research advances of the past 50 years.

OCT. 26, 2022
Learn about the Lasker Laureates who developed vaccines that benefit billions of people, sparing much of the world's population from a rogue's gallery of illnesses.

June 14, 2022
Read about the people and organizations honored with the Lasker Public Service Award for bringing the fruits of medical research to the public.

APR. 6, 2022
Read about Matthew Meselson, who was recognized with a Lasker Award for his extraordinary contributions to two different areas of the scientific enterprise: molecular biology and public policy.