Word: lasker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 30-May 28, 2000: "Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, Paintings from the 1990s," "Lasker Curates Selections from the Brandeis University Art Collections...
Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience Seymour S. Kety will receive one of the nation's most prestigious awards for medical research, the Lasker Foundation announced Sunday...
...psychobiologist at Belmont's McLean Hospital, Kety will receive the Lasker Award, known as the "American Nobel," on Oct. 1. According to the foundation, roughly one-fourth of winners have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes...
...National Institutes of Health made that recognition official when it recommended antibiotics for the treatment of ulcer patients who have the bacteria. Marshall has since received several prizes, including the Lasker Award in 1995, and is now a professor at the University of Virginia, where he founded a Helicobacter and intestinal immunology research center. He helped develop tests for H. pylori--which may also be implicated in some stomach cancers--and is now working on formulating simpler tests. Encouraged by the recent deciphering of H. pylori's genome, he is also continuing work on developing a vaccine to combat...
According to the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, as part of his award, Ptashne "will receive an honorarium, a citation highlighting his achievements, and an inscribed statuette of the winged Victory of Samothrace, the Foundations's traditional symbol of humankind's victory over disability, disease and death...