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Lasker Foundation announces 2026 Lasker Award winners

The Lasker Foundation has announced the 2026 Lasker Award winners, honoring fundamental discoveries in sleep research, revolutionary therapy for hemophilia A, and leadership in Parkinson’s disease research advocacy. Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa will receive the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for discovering orexin...

Lasker Foundation announces 2025 Lasker Award winners

The Lasker Foundation has announced the 2025 Lasker Award winners, recognizing Dirk Görlich and Steven L. McKnight for their discovery of low-complexity domains within protein sequences. Michael J. Welsh, Jesús González, and Paul A. Negulescu have also been honored for developing a novel triple-drug combination therapy for cystic fibro...