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