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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...
Members of Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology unanimously praised Ptashne and his work...
Losick said that Ptashne's principal contribution to the field of molecular biology was the discovery of the principles under which "regulatory molecules" controlling the function of genes can be applied to eukaryotic, or multi-celled organisms...
...August, Ptashne resigned in August from his position at Harvard to become the Ludwig professor of molecular biology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He moved his Harvard laboratory to New York as well...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biography James C. Wang, whose laboratory is located next to Ptashne's old Harvard laboratory, said he views Ptashne's resignation from the Harvard faculty as "a big loss to Harvard," but said that he thought his award was "a wonderful thing...