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The Lasker Foundation awards, popularly known as the ‘American Nobels,’ one of the most prestigious honours in science and medicine, were announced today. we are extremely pleased to congratulate F1000 Faculty Peter Walter and Mary-Claire King for winning awards!

Mary-Claire King, is American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has been is a member of our International Advisory Board since 2011. Professor King receives the 2014 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science for “bold, imaginative, and diverse contributions to medical science and human rights,” having discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that causes hereditary breast cancer and deployed DNA strategies to reunite missing persons (or their remains) with their families.

Peter Walter, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UC San Francisco, is a Section Head in Cell Biology. He receives the 2014 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award jointly with Kazutoshi Mori for their discoveries concerning the unfolded protein response, an intracellular quality control system that detects harmful misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and signals the nucleus to carry out corrective measures.

Our congrats to Mary-Claire King and Peter Walter and, of course, to all the recipients of this year’s Lasker Awards.