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