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Professor of Genetics Jack W. Szostak was one of five scientists to win the 2006 Lasker Medical Research Award. Since 1962, more than half of the recipients of that accolade have later received a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine...
Szostak and two other Lasker winners were honored for their discovery of the enzyme telomerase. The other two recipients are a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist whose research transformed the treatment of depression and a Carnegie Institution embryologist who is a pioneer in the study of chromosome structure...
...prizes from the Lasker Foundation will be presented next Friday in New York...
Harvard Professor of Genetics Jack W. Szostak was one of only three scientists who won the 2006 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for discovering an enzyme linked to cancer and aging. A University of Pennsylvania psychologist won the Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, and a Carnegie Institution cell biologist won the Lasker Award for Special Achievement. Due to an editing error, the Feb. 18 news article, "'American Nobel' For Genetics Professor," misstated the number of recipients of the basic research prize...
...Weinberger faced a federal indictment for lying to investigators in the Iran-Contra scandal under Reagan, but received a presidential pardon from President George H. W. Bush before his trial began.Born Aug. 18, 1917, in San Francisco, Weinberger arrived in Harvard Yard in the fall of 1934.Morris E. Lasker ’38, who lived on the third floor of Matthews Hall with Weinberger in their freshman year, said that it was clear even in Weinberger’s college days that the future defense secretary was clearly “very bright” and “very...