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