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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