Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

In this #AskAScientist, 2022 #LaskerLaureate Lauren Gardner explains how context-specific intuition is crucial for network modeling.

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🧪#LaskerLaureate Napoleone Ferrara’s dad was a judge. His uncle was a lawyer. “They took me to court many times. It was very interesting,” he says. But nothing fascinated Ferrara like the library of his grandfather—a high-school science teacher: https://ow.ly/aAEw50YocyG

Thomas E. Starzl was born #OTD in 1926. He won a #LaskerAward for the development of liver transplantation, which has restored normal life to thousands of patients with end-stage #liverdisease. ❤️‍🩹🧪

Read more here: http://ow.ly/1cbt30nL5RT

In this #AskAScientist, 2022 #LaskerLaureate Lauren Gardner discusses the role of intuition in making scientific decisions. 🧪

Classic Lasker: Willem J. Kolff - Lasker Foundation What was life like for Lasker Laureates while they were doing their Award-winning work? Listen in as Award Winners share their personal stories. You will hear about starting off in research during a World War, learn how Laureates navigated family and career, and find out how

March is #NationalKidneyMonth. 🧪

🎧 Listen to a podcast featuring #LaskerLaureate Willem Kolff who developed renal hemodialysis, a critical treatment for patients with kidney failure:

🧪 Happy birthday to Franz-Ulrich Hartl! He was recognized with a #LaskerAward in 2011 for his work on chaperone-assisted protein folding.

Read more: http://ow.ly/gr5b30nMJaK

Lasker Foundation Video Contest. [Light yellow graphic with "Video Content" written in large, dark blue and light blue font.]

Early-career #SciSky & #MedSky, this one’s for you! 🧪

Submit a 2-minute (or shorter) video by Apr 2 on a research question you’re studying. We'll announce up to 3 winners on social and in our newsletter in July, to be featured in the Journal of Clinical Investigation: https://ow.ly/yXNi50Yo95b

Sir David J. Weatherall was born #OTD. He received a #LaskerAward in 2010 for discoveries concerning genetic blood disorders and for leadership in improving clinical care for thousands of children around the world with #thalassemia. ❤️‍🩹🧪 @oxforduni.bsky.social http://ow.ly/VXqO50Iehzi

🫁 Edward Robitzek, a lung expert, won a #LaskerAward in 1955 for establishing the efficacy of isoniazid drugs in the treatment of #tuberculosis. Discover more: http://ow.ly/Nar350CfQCe

#MedSky #SciSky 🧪

Evelyn Witkin, #LaskerLaureate, was born #OTD. She discovered the DNA-damage response, a fundamental mechanism that protects the genomes of all organisms:
http://ow.ly/KBL950Iehqz 🧬🧪 Rutgers University #WomenInSTEM

Flyer for APSA West Regional Meeting on April 4, 2026, at Oregon Health & Science University for MD-PhD trainees in Portland, OR.

Calling all West-based physician-scientist students! 🧪

Where can you engage in a poster session, oral presentations, and focused panel discussions led by physician scientists, industry leaders, residents, and more? At the APSA West Regional Meeting on Apr 4. Register here: https://ow.ly/Q65o50YpE46

Edward C. Kendall was born #OTD in 1886. He won the 1949 #LaskerAward and the 1950 #NobelPrize for isolating and studying #hormones from the adrenal glands. 🧪http://ow.ly/EgVl30nL5RO

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What did Lasker do in 2025? 🤔 We celebrated the power of scientific breakthroughs to improve human health. And we accelerated our advocacy efforts—helping ensure that future findings benefit everyone. 🧪

Read the 2025 Annual Report, now available in March’s newsletter: https://ow.ly/wRHA50YocMA

Have you heard about our Video Contest? 🎥 🧪

Early-career scientists, Lasker and the Journal of Clinical Investigation are looking to hear from YOU by April 2 on why a biomedical research question you’re studying has the power to benefit science and patients in the future: https://ow.ly/7xsU50Yo8Cm

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🧪 In 1951, Elise L’Esperance and Catherine Macfarlane became the first women to win the Clinical #LaskerAward. They established some of the first clinics that offered routine screening for uterine and cervical cancer: http://ow.ly/40Cw50N95TH

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Black and white portrait of phytochemist Tu Youyou with dark hair wearing a patterned blouse and dark cardigan against a plain backdrop (top); color photo of Tu Youyou at a podium accepting her Lasker award. Both portraits set against a pink and purple microscopic stain of malaria, which Youyou researched.

"In spite of being a female scientist in turbulent days and having no postgraduate degree, Tu Youyou went on to win the 2011 Lasker-Debakey Prize and the 2015 Nobel."

🧪Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth by reading a Lasker Essay Contest winner on the work of Tu Youyou: http://ow.ly/mgrT50Neoge

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What do long motorcycle rides have to do with the discovery of key signaling proteins in blood vessel formation? For #LaskerLaureate Napoleone Ferrara, the former helped him discover the latter.

🧪🎧 In the March newsletter, listen to our podcast episode featuring Ferrara: https://ow.ly/XGVy50Yocav

In this #AskAScientist, Harold Varmus, 1982 #LaskerLaureate, discusses the role of humor in scientific research. 🧪

Flyer for APSA Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting on March 28, 2026, at Rutgers University's New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ.

✔️ Network among students from different institutions and training levels.
🧪 Engage with established physician-scientists.

Join APSA at Rutgers NJMS MD/PhD for its Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting on Saturday, March 28. Register by Friday, March 13 to attend: https://ow.ly/x5ox50YpanB

"80% of people will contract HPV at some point in their lives. Vaccines and screenings can help reduce oral, cervical, and other HPV-related cancers." [Close-up of a purple HPV virus particle on a blue background promoting HPV Awareness Day on March 4 with facts about infection and cancer prevention.]

On #HPVAwarenessDay, we recognize #LaskerLaureates Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, whose technological advances led to the development of vaccines for prevention of cervical cancer and other tumors caused by #HPV: https://ow.ly/5kBv50YoJGU

🧪#OneLessWorry

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This #WomensHistoryMonth and beyond, how do we fight for equality for #WomenInSTEM? “Communally,” says #LaskerLaureate Joan Steitz.

🧬🧪 Steitz was recognized for her leadership in #RNAbiology and in scientific mentorship: http://ow.ly/rjRL50N961h

Lasker President Claire Pomeroy is now here on Bluesky! “I’m thrilled to be joining a social platform that I know is home to so many respected pioneers in science and biomedicine,” she wrote on X. Give her a follow at Dr. Claire Pomeroy. 🧪 🗞️

Dive into last year’s Award details, Essay Contest winners, videos, podcasts, and more! The 2025 Annual Report is here, and it’s a part of our March newsletter. 🧪

See the full roundup and subscribe to our monthly newsletter here: https://ow.ly/wLjM50YncFk

Janet Rowley had to delay medical school because the quota for women had been filled. She went on to win a #LaskerAward for her work that made diagnosing cancer at the molecular level possible. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

🎧🧪 Listen to her story: http://ow.ly/yFNf50IKOkR

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📣 Early-career biomedical scientists! Our Video Contest is LIVE.

🎥 Submit your entry, describing a research question you're studying & how it could benefit science & patients, by April 2. We'll announce winners, to be featured by Journal of Clinical Investigation, in July: https://ow.ly/OFTi50Yo5M9

March 2026 Newsletter - Lasker Foundation MAR, 2 2026 Discover the 2026 Lasker Video Contest topic, listen to our latest podcast featuring Lasker Laureate Napoleone Ferrara, and download our Annual Report.

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This month, we’re featuring #LaskerLaureate @ucsandiego.bsky.social molecular biologist Napoleone Ferrara, who won a 2010 Clinical Medical Research Award for discovering vascular endothelial growth factor, and consequently, developing treatment for age-related wet macular degeneration. 🧪

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Our March newsletter is here! 📰 🧪

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Our Video Contest starts TOMORROW. Early-career scientists, get into the specifics so that your entry shines! 🌟 🧪

Winners will receive $5,000 for educational expenses. Visit this page to learn about eligibility criteria and format: https://ow.ly/kzsa50YnciA

Lasker Laureate Denis Burkitt investigated the cause of a pediatric cancer, now called Burkitt's lymphoma, and developed a successful treatment using chemotherapy. [Dark purple poster with a transparent image of Burkitt's tumor under microscope as a background; white and yellow letters; features images outlined in white boxes of Burkitt's tumor under microscope and a portrait of scientist Denis Burkitt.]

Denis Burkitt was born #OTD in 1911.

🧪 He identified Burkitt’s tumor and developed a successful chemotherapeutic treatment: http://ow.ly/spT830nxVVN