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    MAR. 14, 2023 Meet Rosalyn Yalow, the first woman and the first nuclear physicist to win a Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. She developed the technique of radioimmunoassay, one of the most important clinically applied basic research advances of the past 50 years.

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    • Roz Yalow- A “Woman of Firsts” Who Transformed Medical Testing - I knew Roz & more closely her collaborator Sol Berson, who chaired Medicine at new Mt Sinai Med School I entered in 1968. Both great scientists. He died prematurely in 1972, pre her Nobel. https://t.co/gDl2cEvxL5

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    The 2023 Essay Contest is now open. Essay Topic: Ethical issues are not always easy to identify. Describe an unanticipated ethical issue you have encountered, or you have seen colleagues encounter, during your training and the strategies used to address it. Deadline is March 31 at 2 p.m. US Eastern Daylight

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    • 📣 #MedTwitter Trainees (international too): @AAMCtoday Essay Contest - Lasker Foundation Describe an unanticipated ethical issue you have encountered, or you have seen colleagues encounter, during your training and the strategies used to address it. https://t.co/DuvnN5xhvS https://t.co/DQSRBqWlOJ

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    For their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of modern immunology

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    • We congratulate #AACRFellows Richard O. Hynes, PhD, FAACR; AACR member Erkki Ruoslahti, PhD; and Timothy A. Springer, PhD, on earning the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their pioneering research on integrins. https://t.co/Gy30yO0Dux @LaskerFDN #LaskerAwards

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    The 2022 Essay Contest Is Now Open! Topic: Solving complex questions often calls for expertise in many fields. Describe how multidisciplinary collaborations and approaches (or future opportunities for them) have already or will in the future impact your own training, research, or career. Deadline March 30, 2pm EDT. SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY

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    • .@LaskerFDN invites in-training and early career professionals in the biomedical sciences to enter its 2022 essay contest. Prizes of up to $5,000 will be awarded. Submit by March 30 (https://t.co/ovxXwMMWd7). Visit our site for additional opportunities: (https://t.co/capK3h2U35)

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    The Lasker Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have joined together in an innovative partnership to nurture the next generation of clinician-researchers. The Lasker Clinical Research Scholars program is an NIH-funded initiative that supports early-career medical researchers and helps bridge the widening gap between cutting-edge research and improved patient care. This

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    • Big congratulations to @NIH’s 5 new 2021 @LaskerFDN Clinical Research Scholars. This initiative nurtures the next generation of clinical researchers who are working to bridge the gap between cutting edge research and improved patient care. #NIH https://t.co/eC38MDWjhU https://t.co/V9JPZp8LcE