Word: lasker
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...recognition of his ground-breaking research on gene regulation, former Smith Professor of Molecular Biology Mark S. Ptashne yesterday won the 1997 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award...
According to a news release from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, Ptashne "pioneered the molecular basis of gene regulation and isolated the molecule called a 'lambda repressor' which functions as a switch turning gene expression...
Wang said that Ptashne's receipt of the Lasker Award "is a very nice recognition of his achievements" considering Ptashne's "fundamental contributions to gene regulation...
Your gratuitous insults of this distinguished scientist (1996 Commencement Speaker Dr. Harold E. Varmus) were unfair as well as undeserved. As you must have known, but apparently chose to ignore, Varmus is a past winner of the Lasker Prize, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1989. As the Post put it so well, he is an internationally recognized expert on the genetics of cancer. In recognition of his research abilities, as well as his ability to lead and administer, President Clinton chose him to direct the National Institues of Health...
...polypeptide was discovered by two professors at the School of Public Health, Lasker Professor of Health Sciences Myron E. Essex and Associate Professor of Virology...