The 1999 Lasker Awards
Editor's Note: This year's winners of the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards were honored for their achievements at an Oct. 1 luncheon at the Hotel Pierre in New York. Three researchers were recognized for their work on ion channels, two for their development of a novel hypertension medication, and one for a lifetime of contributions to neuroscience. Following are three stories on the winners. More information is available on the Web at www.laskerfoundation.org. Basic Award Recognizes Ion Ch
Oct 24, 1999
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Basic Award Recognizes Ion Channel Research
Two of this year's Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research awardees, Bertil Hille and Clay Armstrong, conceived of a remarkably simple model for the mechanisms governing the body's ion channels--pores in cells that facilitate all electrical signals--and therefore all thinking and movement. A third awardee, Roderick MacKinnon, confirmed and expanded on that model by using X-ray crystallography to supply a picture of the potassium channel.In the 1950s, Sirs...
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