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 nostr.fmt.wiz.biz