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	Leroy Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He holds numerous patents and awards for his scientific breakthroughs and prides himself on his life-long commitment to making science accessible and understandable to the general public, especially children.
		Since then, his research has focused on the study of molecular immunology and biotechnology.
		Hood has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers, received 12 patents, and co-authored textbooks in biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, and genetics, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Association of Arts and Sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leroy_Hood (523 words)

	The Endocrine Society : News : Press Releases : 2004 : Endocrine Society Members Receive 2004 Lasker Award for Basic ...
		His extensive research with hormones led to the successful cloning of the estrogen receptor, which, along with the glucocorticoid receptor cloned by Dr. Evans, was the first nuclear receptor to be cloned.
		Jensen, the 1980-81 President of The Endocrine Society and 1984 Fred Conrad Koch Award Winner, the Society's highest award, is presently Profressor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and Wile Professor for Cancer Research in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
		Evans, the 1999 Fred Conrad Koch Award winner, is a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and is the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California.
	www.endo-society.org /news/press/2004/laster_award.cfm (800 words)

	endeavors magazine .: unc-chapel hill
		At Carolina, some 200 faculty researchers work with animals, and many of these investigators are doing basic studies of mouse genetics for insights into human biology and disease.
		Research using that model led Boucher and colleagues to discover that the airway cells of CF patients contain too little salt.
		Researchers have used the marker in studies of cancer, alcohol-associated liver damage, kidney damage from immunosuppressive drugs, and changes in bone caused by changes in stress such as occur during space travel.
	research.unc.edu /endeavors/win2003/animal_research.html (649 words)

	University Gazette, September 26, 2001
		The Lasker Awards, first presented in 1946, are administered by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.
		In her work spanning five decades as the nation's foremost citizen-activist on behalf of medical research, the late Mary Lasker is widely recognized for her singular contribution to the growth of the National Institutes of Health and her unflagging commitment to government funding of medical research in the hope of curing devastating diseases.
		Each Lasker Award winner gets an honorarium, a citation highlighting their achievements and an inscribed statuette of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation's traditional symbol of humankind's victory over disability, disease and death.
	gazette.unc.edu /archives/01sep26/file.5.html (1304 words)

	The Rockefeller University - News Releases
		Since the Lasker Awards were first presented in 1945, 47 percent of the Basic Lasker Winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize, while 37 percent of all Nobel Prize winners have received Lasker Awards.
		The researchers previously revealed that thyroid hormone receptor and p53, which both are known to activate several genes as part of their normal cellular activity, require separate components of the human Mediator to properly function.
		In addition to the Lasker award, Roeder received the 2002 ASBMB-Merck Award, which he shared with Stanford University's Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D., for their outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology, and the 2001 University of Pittsburgh Dickson Prize in Medicine.
	runews.rockefeller.edu /?page=engine&id=77 (2203 words)

	UHN Research: OCI Stem Cell Pioneers Honoured with Lasker Award
		Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till, who were awarded the 2005 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in recognition of the ground-breaking work that first identified the stem cell--and formed the basis of all current stem cell research.
		According to the Lasker Foundation, donors of the awards, "The 2005 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research honors two scientists who first identified a stem cell, which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells.
		OCI is one of three research institutes comprising the University Health Network, a leading-edge biomedical and healthcare research organization with international stature, and is a teaching partner of the University of Toronto.
	www.uhnresearch.ca /news/php/readarticle.php?id=646 (387 words)

	Lasker Award-winning geneticist to present at Sept. 25 Chancellor’s Science Seminar Series
		The Lasker Awards represent the nation’s most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research.
		Three scientists worldwide are recipients of the 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the award recognizes the researchers’ contributions to development of a powerful technology for manipulating the mouse genome with exquisite precision, which allows the creation of animal models of human disease, the so-called "knockout mice."
		He has received awards from the American Heart Association for hypertension research and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation for his studies on the role of genes in cardiovascular research.
	www.unc.edu /news/archives/sep01/seminar091701.htm (689 words)

	Global Health Council - Dr. William Foege to Receive Lasker Award for Public Service
		The 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is shared by Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies and honors these three scientists for the development of a powerful technology for manipulating the mouse genome with exquisite precision, which allows the creation of animal models of human disease.
		The 2001 Award for Public Service is presented to William Foege for his courageous leadership in improving worldwide public health, and his prominent role in the eradication of smallpox, and the prevention of river blindness and guinea worm disease.
		Awards Ceremony Remarks by Joseph L. Goldstein, Chairman of the Lasker Awards Jury, and by Ira Herskowitz, member of the Lasker Jury, and Daniel E. Koshland, Chairman of the Public Service Award Selection Committee, 21 September 2001.
	www.globalhealth.org /news/article/1254 (262 words)

	Lasker Foundation: Living Library home page
		The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for 1999 is shared by Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Alexander Varshavsky.
		The Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research is shared by Michael Houghton and Harvey Alter.
		The Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for 1998 is shared by Lee Hartwell, Paul Nurse, and Yoshio Masui.
	www.emfoley.com /library (423 words)

	Genetics researcher wins $500,000 award - Boston.com
		A biologist whose pioneering research in genetics led to the exploration of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's has been awarded the nation's richest prize in medicine and biomedical research.
		Among medical awards, the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize is second only to the $1.4 million Nobel Prize in cash value.
		The Albany Medical Prize award was established in 2000 by a $50 million gift from the late Morris "Marty" Silverman, a New York City businessman who wanted to encourage health and biomedical research.
	www.boston.com /yourlife/health/diseases/articles/2006/04/29/genetics_researcher_wins_500000_award (490 words)

	The Lasker Foundation \| Former Award Winners, Basic Medical Research 1974
		To Dr. Gross who opposed the prolonged skepticism accorded his findings, with tenacious experimentation and insight, and succeeded in changing the course of medicine, this 1974 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award is given.
		For Dr. Spiegelman's new techniques which may permit a definitive conclusion on the role of viruses in human cancer in the foreseeable future, and may provide the basis for new chemotherapeutic and immunological controls of human cancer, this 1974 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award is given.
		His ingenious experiments have analyzed the contributions of cellular and viral functions during infection and in particular have demonstrated the existence and operation of a novel viral enzyme—RNA dependent DNA polymerase (reverse transcriptase)—which is contained within the virus particle and which can mediate the synthesis of a DNA copy of the viral RNA genetic molecules.
	www.laskerfoundation.org /awards/library/1974basic.shtml (793 words)

	News in the College of Letters and Science, UC Berkeley
		The most prestigious awards for biological scientists, outside of the Nobel Prize, are the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards given by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.
		For nearly thirty years, their research has complimented each other in extraordinary ways, such that many of the discoveries of one scientist depended upon previous findings of the other scientist, and vise versa.
		Since more than half of the recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research later receive the Nobel Prize as well, we should not be surprised if his accomplishments become even more influential to the understanding basic biological processes and the medical treatments for diseases.
	ls.berkeley.edu /new/02/schekman.html (841 words)

	Scientific prizes and awards in medicine - CIRS
		The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards are the most prestigious and coveted awards presented in the United States for biomedical research.
		The Lasker Awards focus keen attention each year on an elite community of remarkable basic and clinical scientists whose work has been seminal to understanding disease and the human being's capacity to overcome it.
		The Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
	www.cirs.net /awards/medicine/usa/A&MLaskerfound.htm (262 words)

	Wittenberg University - Wittenberg Alumnus Tapped For Nation's Most Distinguished Medical Research Award
		The Lasker Award jury singled Jensen out for his research during the 1950s and 1960s at the University of Chicago, which led to the discovery of the estrogen receptor, vital in the understanding of steroid hormone action and the effective use of hormone therapies for breast cancer treatment.
		Jensen, the 2002 recipient of the Brinker International Award of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the George and Elizabeth Wile Chair for Cancer Research at the University of Cincinnati's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, is a native of Springfield and a graduate of Springfield High School.
		Jensen shares the Lasker Award with two colleagues, Pierre Chambon of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France, and Ronald Evans of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
	www4.wittenberg.edu /news/2004/09_30.html (911 words)

	Randy Schekman, Ph.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Among his honors are the Eli Lilly Award in microbiology, the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award in basic biomedical science, the Gairdner International Award, the Amgen Award from the Protein Society, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University.
		He is scientific director of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research and past president of the American Society for Cell Biology.
		Randy Schekman's research is focused on the process of membrane assembly, vesicular transport, and membrane fusion among organelles of the secretory pathway.
	www.practicingsafescience.org /research/investigators/schekman_bio.html (207 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Aaron Ciechanover
		In 2000 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
		Along with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
		Born in Haifa, Israel, he received his Master of Science in 1971 and his M.D. in 1974 from the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Aaron_Ciechanover (179 words)

	Clay M. Armstrong, MD, wins 1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
		The Lasker Award is often cited as a Nobel Prize predictor: 61 Lasker Award recipients have subsequently received the honor.
		Armstrong is being cited for pioneering research elucidating the physical processes underlying electrical signaling in and between cells.
		These basic components of all cells play a fundamental role in the conduction of electrical impulses in nerve, muscle, and heart, and control the central nervous system, including the brain, muscle contraction, cardiac rhythm, hormone secretion, and many other vital biological events.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-09/UoPM-CMAM-260999.php (858 words)

	Researcher to receive award for cancer work
		He will share the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for 2004 for his work with estrogen and breast-cancer treatment.
		The Lasker awards, announced today, will be presented in New York on Oct. 1.
		Officials with the Lasker Awards say Jensen's work paved the way to treatments for breast cancer that save or prolong more than 100,000 lives a year.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/09/26/loc_jensen26.html (394 words)

	Institute of Medicine - new members
		Three scientists, Pierre Chambon, Ronald M. Evans, and Elwood Jensen have received the 2004 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for the “discovery of the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors and elucidation of a unifying mechanism that regulates embryonic development and diverse metabolic pathways.” Two of these honorees, Pierre Chambon
		Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease.
		The Lasker Awards are often thought of as the nation’s highest recognition and the award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine: almost 50% of the Lasker Awards winners have gone on to win a Nobel Prize.
	hcr3.isiknowledge.com /isi_copy/Comm_news57.htm (494 words)

	"The Rockefeller University Scientist"
		Roeder received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research at a luncheon ceremony at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
		The Lasker is awarded each September to honor outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research.
		The other scientists receiving Lasker Awards at Friday’s ceremony were Marc Feldman and Ravinder N. Maini of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Imperial College London; they share the Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for their discovery of anti-TNF therapy as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.
	www.rockefeller.edu /pubinfo/news_notes/rus_092503_a.php (394 words)

	NIH Record-11_30_99-- Grantees Win 'America's Nobels,' Lasker Awards
		Three NIH-supported researchers recently won the 1999 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the nation's most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to medical research.
		His current research focuses on the idea that proteins in solution are key to understanding ion channel gates at a more basic level.
		Hille's research proved that channels are independent physical entities in the membrane, each site generating electrical signals that make it possible for cells to talk to one another.
	www.nih.gov /news/NIH-Record/11_30_99/story04.htm (570 words)

	HSC News Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mario Capecchi, Ph.D., distinguished professor of human genetics and biology, is a co-recipient of the 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
		Capecchi is the Helen Lowe Bamberger Colby Professor of Health Sciences, an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
		Often called "America's Nobel," the Lasker Award has been given to 63 scientists who subsequently received the Nobel Prize, including four in the last three years.
	uuhsc.utah.edu /pubaffairs/news_detail.cfm?ID=19299 (171 words)

	Nobel Laureate To Speak At Duke University Medical Center
		Goldstein is chairman of the department of molecular genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
		The Medical Scientist Training Program at Duke is a program of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
		It supports the integrated medical and graduate research training that is required for the investigation of human diseases by trainees in graduate programs in the biological, chemical and physical sciences.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2002/04/nobel0402_print.htm (226 words)

	Lasker Award honors Rockefeller University biochemist for pioneering studies of gene activation
		Lasker Award honors Rockefeller University biochemist for pioneering studies of gene activation
		Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D., a biochemist whose research has led to major advances in understanding how human genes are switched "on" and "off," is this year's recipient of the highly prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced today.
		Nature's secrets revealed in test tube In the late 1970s, Roeder developed cell-free systems that allowed him and others to study the function of individual genes and transcription-related proteins outside of living cells, in effect recreating transcription in a test tube in a way that faithfully mimics the real process in cells.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-09/ru-lah090903.php (2179 words)

	Washington University Commencement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The basic knowledge Roeder has gathered has enormous potential for clinical benefit in fields ranging from cancer to genetic disorders to infectious diseases.
		The institute aspires to be one of the most innovative biomedical research organizations in the world.
		Scientists at the state-of-the-art facility conduct basic research on genes and proteins that control fundamental processes in living cells to unlock the mysteries of disease and find the keys to their causes, treatment and prevention.
	commencement.wustl.edu /degrees.htm (1325 words)

	Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease.
		The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine: almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.
		1954 Edwin B. Astwood, John F. Enders, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Lasker_Award_for_Basic_Medical_Research (279 words)

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