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Lasker Award

September 21, 2010 Cancer Drug Gleevec Wins Lasker Award Science Life Blog ... Send by Rob Mitchum The big science news of the day was the announcement of the Lasker Awards, informally thought of as the American version of the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. This year's clinical medical research award went to a trio of [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Genentech's Napoleone Ferrara Wins Lasker Award Posted by Hellen Popovich 21 Sep 2010 [...] A Genentech scientist has been named a winner of one of this year's coveted Lasker Awards for research that ultimately led to development of [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 My Own Opinion (????): 2008 "Lasker" Award For Clinical Research Send by Heidi The 2008 Lasker~DeBakey Award for Clinical Medical Research honors a scientist who discovered statins?drugs with remarkable LDL-cholesterol-lowering properties that have revolutionized the prevention and treatment of coronary heart [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 'Lasker Award' To Heart Valve Pioneers ? Carpentier And Starr Send by Adam Pick Mechanical Heart Valve Doctors, Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr, Receive Lasker Award For Heart Valve Research. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Lasker Award Winners Announced Posted by Hellen Popovich Lasker Award winners announced By Sari N. Kent Staff Writer: tothecenter.com Four prominent and accomplished men in varying fields were the winners of the prestigious Albert Lasker Medical Research Award. The awards will be presented on [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Advertising, Schmadvertising! Posted by Hellen Popovich Why 90% of today?s ad campaigns are a total waste of money?? How Madison Avenue sleight of hand turns savvy business people into drooling morons?? The four things every ad MUST accomplish to be successful?? A great opportunity for copywriters ? in a place you?d never even THINK of looking?? Much mor [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 13 September 2008 - BBSRC Congratulates 2008 Lasker Prize Winner ... Posted by Hellen Popovich Steve Visscher, BBSRC Interim Chief Executive, said: "I am extremely pleased to see Prof Baulcombe's work recognised with a Lasker Award. His ground breaking research that first led to the search for and subsequent discovery of small [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Beck Is Honored With A Lasker Award | World Of Psychology Send by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. The New York Times reported on Monday that psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck, father of cognitive psychotherapy, is one of five winners of this year's Lasker Awards. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 This Day, August 2, In Jewish History Posted by Hellen Popovich August 2 1389: Catholic Archdeacon and Jew hater Ferran Martinez is denied the right to act as a judge or to preach after refusing to follow an order of the Pope. The Archbishop of Seville issued this strong punishment because Martinez refused to issue permits for Jews to build new synagogues, in ac [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Barbara McClintock Biography ? Barbara McClintock Profile ... Posted by Hellen Popovich She became the first recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981, and was honored with the Albert Lasker award for basic medical research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal by the Genetics Society of [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Press Release: Promise Me By Nancy G. Komen Posted by Hellen Popovich FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tammy Blake Director of Publicity, Crown Archetype (212) 572.2542/[email protected] Contact: Rachel Rokicki Crown Archetype Publicity (212)782.8455/[email protected] Contact: Sean Boyles Crown Archetype Publicity (212)782.9003/[email protected] The fo [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Rockefeller University Elects Marc Tessier-Lavigne 10th President Send by www.newswise.com The Rockefeller University announced today that its Board of Trustees has elected Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., a leader in the study of brain development and currently Genentech executive vice president for research and chief scientific officer, as the 10th president of the university. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Penn Hosts Obama's Bioethics Commission Send by thedp.com Dana Vogel This summer in Washington, D.C., Penn President Amy Gutmann led the first meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues ? a 13-member group which she was appointed to chair by President Barack Obama in November. This week, Gutmann brought the discussion home when she hosted the second meeting of the Presidential Commission on Monday and Tuesday at Penn [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 2009 Lasker Awards Recognize Promise Of Stem Cells -- Global ... Posted by Hellen Popovich The recipients of The 2009 Lasker Awards, represent the dramatic advances achieved in biotechnology research that have led to a revolutionary stem cell therapy. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Could Artificial Hearts Become Standard? - NYTimes.com Send by By DEALBOOK The device was developed over 15 years by a team that included Alain F. Carpentier, the French surgeon-scientist who, along with Albert Starr, received the 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. The Lasker Foundation [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 IPA Award Finalists - Today's Photos On Windy Citizen Send by Justin Goh IPA is one of the most prestigious photography awards around. A $10000 cash prize for the grand prize winner, a $5000 Discovery of the Year prize and a $5000 Photographer of the Year prize. Plus, there are Lucie award winners for 9 categories and an awards show [...] Did you know: Albert Lasker came up with promoting Goodyear tires as all weather tires? Want more advertising trivia? Follow @100yearsLasker. retweet Medill School FOLLOW ME Real-Time Ads on Windy Citizen [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Jensen, Meselson Win Coveted Lasker Awards Posted by Hellen Popovich Elwood Jensen, University of Chicago professor emeritus, receives Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research [...] The Lasker Awards are the nation's most distinguished honor for [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Prizes Honor Studies In Vision Loss, Obesity (AP) | Health And ... Posted by Hellen Popovich NEW YORK ? Three scientists have won prestigious medical prizes ? one for devising a treatment for a major cause of vision loss and two for laying the groundwork for an explosion in obesity research. The Lasker Awards, worth [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 QVC Welcomes CEW?s Insider?s Choice Beauty Awards Winners Posted by Hellen Popovich On July 27, a select group of Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW)?s Insider?s Choice Beauty Awards winners appeared on QVC to present their products. The program, on QVC?s sprawling campus in West Chester, Pennsylvania, aired at 8 PM and featured the following winners: Shiseido Future Solution LX Total R [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Vision And Obesity Researchers Are Winners Of Lasker Awards Send by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The awards honored research that led to a cure for a type of vision loss and that may help understanding into obesity. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 2010 Lasker Awards Honor Trailblazers In Medical Research And Clinical Care Send by www.redorbit.com NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation , which for 65 years has championed the greatest advances in medical research, announced today the winners of the 2010 Lasker Awards : Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey M. Friedman for basic medical research, Napoleone Ferrara for clinical research and David J. Weatherall for special achievement. The three awards--recognized as [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Geneticist And Researcher Barbara McClintock: Barbara McClintock ... Posted by Hellen Popovich [...] The Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award for Research in Biochemistry: 1978; The Wolf Prize in Medicine: 1981; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named her as their first Prize Fellow Laureate: 1981; The Lasker [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Rockefeller Immunologist Receives Lasker Award For Basic Medical ... Posted by Hellen Popovich This year's Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research honors Rockefeller University's Ralph M. Steinman, who discovered dendritic cells, the preeminent component of the immune system that initiates and regulates the body's response [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 Obesity And Blindness Researchers Win US Lasker Awards ? ABC News ... Posted by Hellen Popovich USA TodayObesity and Blindness Researchers Win US Lasker AwardsABC NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who discovered a hormone intimately linked to obesity, [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 21, 2010 The Lasker Award: Prize For Scientific Achievement Posted by Hellen Popovich Infact, many of the researchers who have won this prize have also got the Nobel in Medicine. This prize was inaugurated in 1946 by the American philantropists Albert and Mary Woodard Lasker. Albert lasker died [ [...] ] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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