Four Scientists Win Medical Awards From Lasker Foundation
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A researcher who turned cataract surgery into a brief outpatient procedure and three scientists who illuminated how some hormones and vitamins act on the body's cells have won prestigious medical awards.
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Two Israelis and an American won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for helping to understand how the human body gives the "kiss of death" to rogue proteins to defend itself from diseases like cancer.
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Agency awarded $4M in grants to study the health, environmental risks posed by manufactured nanomaterials -- invisibly tiny materials revolutionizing many industries but its effects on living things remain unknown.-The Washington Post
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Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins - starting with a chemical "kiss of death."   Their work provides the basis for developing new therapies for diseases such as cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis.    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Ciechanover, 57, Hershko, 67, and Rose, 78, for work they did in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
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NEW YORK -- Pioneers in psychotherapy and cell biology and three scientists who discovered a crucial enzyme linked to cancer and aging are being awarded prestigious medical prizes.
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Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for showing how cells can give a "kiss of death" to destroy unwanted proteins, a finding that could help scientists find new medicines for cancer and other diseases. The award marks the first time an Israeli has won a Nobel science prize.
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The 2004 Nobel winners for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics were officially handed their awards in Stockholm by King Carl XVI Gustaf on Friday.
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A pair of American scientists who as co-workers and later as competitors worked out the basic biology of the sense of smell - one of the body&#39;s most enigmatic and emotion-laden functions â-ave won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Swiss drug giant Novartis SA said yesterday it is spending $4 million to fund scientists performing diabetes research at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Broad Institute, and will make the findings public for other scientists to use.
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Meet five people whose breakthroughs make the progress of science real. Chosen from hundreds of applicants to Apple&#146;s Bioinformatics Award Program, they are shaping our health and our world through their research in biotechnology &#151; and the help of Apple&#146;s Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics. [Sep 2]
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Two US scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their pioneering work in genetics.
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US scientists David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck win the Nobel physics prize for their insights into the deep structure of matter.
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Interfering with RNA The 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine will be shared by MIT's Andrew Fire and Harvard's Craig Mello for their detective work on the phenomenon of RNA interference (RNAi), which has the potential to revolutionise medicine.â¦
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Two American scientists who solved the enigma of how people can smell 10,000 different odors and recall them later were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Pioneering heart surgeons Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr and immunologist Ralph Steinman were named on Saturday as recipients of Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards, sometimes dubbed "America's Nobels."
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A Stanford University scientist and a French architect will receive prizes from the Wolf Foundation this year, the group announced Tuesday.