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