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