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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