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