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This year’s awards recognize work on integrins, noninvasive prenatal screening, and COVID-19 data tracking.

Multiple prestigious US biomedical research awards have rarely or never been granted to a scientist with Asian ancestry, illustrating racial bias within American research societies and institutions, a researcher argues.

This year’s winners are Dieter Oesterhelt, Peter Hegemann, Karl Deisseroth, Drew Weissman, Katalin Karikó, and David Baltimore.

This year’s winners are C. David Allis, Michael Grunstein, John Glen, and Joan Steitz.

Relive the Lasker Award speech from University of Basel biologist Michael Hall.

Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, whose work led to the HPV vaccine, and Michael Hall, who discovered the TOR pathway, win this year’s prizes.

The Nobel laureate and Lasker awardee developed tools that facilitated decades of genetics research, including starch gel electrophoresis and gene targeting.

Discoveries involving a key cellular oxygen-sensing pathway and hepatitis C virus replication are among those recognized with awards from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation this year.

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

Douglas Coleman, the biochemist and geneticist whose early experiments led to the discovery of leptin, has passed away at age 82.

The Scientist commemorates prize-winning life scientists and remembers notable researchers who died this year.

Candace Pert, who helped discover opioid receptors, has passed away at age 67.

Discoveries related to rapid neurotransmitter release are among those recognized by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation this year.

A roundup of those awarded this year’s most prestigious scientific prizes

This year’s prizes are awarded for advances in liver transplantation, cell biology, and leadership in biomedical science.

Discoveries in protein folding and malaria treatment are recognized by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.