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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...
...1970s and 1980s, Szostak studied how cells prevent the loss of crucial genetic information during cell division. He and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, predicted the presence of the enzyme—now known as telomerase—which allows cells to protect their genome from degradation...
Katherine E. Szostak ’05 agreed that the year has given her time to reflect on the event...
...perspective has become a lot more understanding and peaceful,” Szostak said...