Winners of Medical-Research Prizes Announced
September 15, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
Five scientists have won the Lasker Awards for medical research, reports The New York Times.
The awards are given in three categories: basic research, clinical research, and the special-achievement award in medical science. The prize in each category is $300,000.
Akira Endo, a Japanese scientist who discovered the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug, won the prize for clinical research.
Stanley Falkow, a microbiologist at Stanford University, won the special-achievement award for his work on disease-causing microbes.
The basic research award was shared by three scientists from the United States and England for their work on micro-RNA’s. The Americans are Victor R. Ambros, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Gary B. Ruvkun of Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston. The third recipient is David C. Baulcombe of the University of Cambridge.
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