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Lasker Awards Honor Medical Pioneers in Outpatient Cataract and Nuclear Receptors
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation grants $50,000 prizes to three basic researchers and one clinician posthumously for advances in medicine. Dr. Charles Kelman pioneered outpatient cataract surgery, while Pierre Chambon Ronald Evans and Elwood Jensen unveiled nuclear hormone receptor biology guiding gene regulation and drug targets.
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New York
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Charles Kelman
Kelman
Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
United States
Foundation
International Retinal Research Foundation
Lasker
Pierre Chambon
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stragbourg
France
Ronald Evans
Salk Institute For Biological Studies
la Jolla
Calif
Elwood Jensen
University of Chicago
Jensen
Chambon
Evans
Gaid
Lasker Foundation
Chambon and