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The Foundation announces the recipients of the 2026 Lasker Awards. 2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa are honored for the identification of orexin, a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness, and for dis

Watch a series of video shorts, made in collaboration with science journalist Ed Prosser and animator Andrew Khosravani, about the 2026 Lasker Laureates and their work. The post The 2026 Lasker Award Videos appeared first on Lasker Foundation.

Many groundbreaking works in art and science owe their origins to the creative spark ignited by reimagination - the process whereby artists and scientists reinterpret and reframe past and existing knowledge, envisioning it in a new context that reveals ne

Notable scientists discuss the roles of instinct, uncertainty, and inspiration on their roads to success. They talk about their approaches to collaborations and how they handle roadblocks. As you listen, you will find that doing biomedical research does n

Stephen Elledge returned from a pleasant weekend trip in 1985 to find that the research project he'd been working on for months had failed. That disaster was one of the best things that ever happened to him. A postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, E

In this issue, meet Lasker Laureate Stephen Elledge, who uncovered the DNA damage signaling pathway in eukaryotes, and hear physiologist and biochemist David Julius reflect on finding beauty in biology. The Cure for Broken DNA Meet Lasker Laureate Stephen

Susumu Tonegawa, who made fundamental contributions to the discovery of the genetic basis of antibody diversity, has passed away at 86. Tonegawa was born in Japan and educated at Kyoto University, where he fell in love with molecular biology. He moved to

In this issue, learn about the winners of our inaugural Video Contest. We asked biomedical trainees to make a short video describing a research question that they are studying-or that they would like to explore-and how that question could be addressed to

This year, we asked early-career scientists and health professionals to make a short video describing a research question that they are studying-or that they would like to explore-and how that question could be addressed to benefit science and patients. T

When geneticist Howard Temin of the University of Wisconsin stepped to the lectern at the Tenth International Cancer Congress in Houston in 1970, he faced a challenging task. The previous speaker and session chair-his former collaborator Harry Rubin of th