Lasker Winners Announced

DNA-damage response and cancer immunotherapy discoveries are among those recognized by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation this year.

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Left to right: Stephen Elledge, Evelyn Witkin, James AllisonALBERT AND MARY LASKER FOUNDATIONEvelyn Witkin of Rutgers University in New Jersey and Stephen Elledge of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have won the 2015 Lasker Award for basic medical research. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation is recognizing Witkin and Elledge for their pioneering work on the DNA-damage response. (See “Gene Silencing Is Golden,” The Scientist, August 2013; “Damage Control,” The Scientist, March 2009.)

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s James Allison has won the 2015 Lasker Award for clinical medical research. He is being honored for his work toward antibody-based immunotherapies for cancer. (See “Deploying the Body’s Army,” The Scientist, April 2014.)

“I’ve always considered [my work] really basic science, so it’s really quite an honor to receive the clinical award this year,” Allison said during a press conference today (September 8). “I see it in part as an acknowledgement of advances in immunotherapy . . . as a field.”

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) has won this year’s Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for “bold leadership in responding to the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa, and for sustained and effective frontline ...

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