Listen in as Award Winners share their personal stories. You will hear about starting off in researc
“The natural history of heart valve disease had not changed in hundreds of years—until Dr. Starr st
“By the time we finished walking across this great lawn, we had decided on this exciting experiment.
Roderick MacKinnon won the 1999 Lasker Award for elucidating the structure of potassium channels. Hi
Lasker Laureate Daniel Koshland’s work changed our understanding of how enzymes interact with their
“It wasn’t enough to sit at the table,” said Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation
In May of 1995, a man was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition and broke his neck,
Lasker Laureate Alec Jeffreys developed DNA fingerprinting, a technology that revolutionized human
“The idea of spending your time digging into mysteries…I thought that would be a wonderful way to sp
The venom of the Brazilian pit viper Bothrops jararaca causes a sudden and catastrophic drop in bloo
Oliver Smithies freely admits that he did not find a solution to the problem he set out to solve, b
After meeting a young man dying of renal failure, Willem Kolff could not shake the thought that the
In vitro fertilization has become fairly common, but have you ever stopped to think about the fundam
In this 2002 interview, Lasker Award and Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel speaks with the then-newly m
“If we’re smart enough to figure out the cause of something, we can intervene to change the effects.
We’ve been hearing a lot about immunology the past two years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pand
“I was forty-seven years old before I did anything that people would really look at twice.” Janet Ro
In this 1996 interview between Lasker Award winner Paul Zamecnik and three-time Emmy Award-winning
