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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