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2025 Lasker Awards Honor Breakthroughs in Biomedical Research

9/12/2025

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Lasker Awards Celebrate Innovators

The 2025 Albert Lasker Awards recognized significant achievements in biomedical research.
Dr. Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Basic Medical Research Award for their work on cellular organization and low sequence complexity proteins.
Dr. Michael Welsh, Jesús González, and Paul Negulescu earned the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing Trikafta, a transformative therapy for cystic fibrosis.
Trikafta improves the lifespan and quality of life for cystic fibrosis patients, reducing hospitalizations and lung transplants.
The awards ceremony will take place on September 19, 2025, in New York.

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Lasker Awards Celebrate Innovators

The 2025 Albert Lasker Awards recognized significant achievements in biomedical research.
Dr. Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Basic Medical Research Award for their work on cellular organization and low sequence complexity proteins.
Dr. Michael Welsh, Jesús González, and Paul Negulescu earned the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing Trikafta, a transformative therapy for cystic fibrosis.
Trikafta improves the lifespan and quality of life for cystic fibrosis patients, reducing hospitalizations and lung transplants.
The awards ceremony will take place on September 19, 2025, in New York.