Rabble on Nostr: China-born 😂 scientist 🤔 Chen Zhijian wins ‘America’s Nobel’ 🎉 😂 ...

China-born 😂 scientist 🤔 Chen Zhijian wins ‘America’s Nobel’ 🎉 😂 for medical research 👍 😂 ========== Chen Zhijian, 🎉 a China-born scientist, wins the 2024 Albert 🎉 Lasker 😀 Award 🎉 for basic 😀 medical research for his 😂 discovery 🌈 of 🤔 the enzyme cGAS, which 🤔 plays 🔥 a crucial role in the immune response 🌈 to pathogens. 😀 He 🤔 is the sixth scientist 😂 👍 🤔 of Chinese 💯 origin to 🤔 receive this 🌈 award and 🎉 🎉 🌈 the second 🤔 in the basic research category since 1962. Chen, 🎉 58, was born 😀 in Fujian 💯 province, graduated from Fujian Normal 😂 University in 🌈 1985, and earned a 😀 PhD from 😀 the State University 💯 of New York at Buffalo in 1991. He established his lab at the University of Texas 🎉 Southwestern Medical Centre in 🔥 🔥 1997 and was elected to the US National 👍 Academy of Sciences 👍 in 😀 2014. The Lasker Awards, established in 1945, are 😂 often 🌈 seen 🔥 🌈 as precursors 👍 to 🎉 the Nobel Prize. The awards ceremony will take 😂 place 🎉 in 😀 New York 🔥 on September 22, 2024. #ChenZhijian #LaskerAward 💯 #MedicalResearch 💯 🌈 #Cgas #NobelPrize 😀 #Immunity 🌈 #Cancer #InfectiousDiseases #BiomedicalResearch 🌈 #UniversityOfTexas https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3279364/china-born-chen-zhijian-wins-top-us-medical-research-prize-said-foretell-nobel