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Termed the ‘pre-Nobels’ because 50% of award winners go on to win a Nobel Prize, the 2015 Lasker awards were announced yesterday. I am pleased to say that two F1000 Faculty are among the recipients!

 

Professor Stephen Elledge from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s hospital, and an F1000 Faculty Member in Cell Biology, won the Lasker award for Basic Medical Research, awarded for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. Elledge receives the award for his discoveries concerning the DNA-damage response, a fundamental mechanism that protects the genomes of all living organisms. Read more about Stephen Elledge’s research here.

 

Professor James Allison, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and an F1000 Section Head in Immunology, received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research award, given to honour outstanding work for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure of disease. Allison received the award for the discovery and development of a monoclonal antibody therapy that unleashes the immune system to combat cancer. Read more about James Allison’s research here.

 

The Lasker Public Service award went to Médecins Sans Frontières for bold leadership in responding to the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa and for sustained and effective frontline responses to health emergencies.

Many congrats to Profs Elledge and Allison on receiving these prestigious prizes!