Mary Claire King Wins Lasker Award
- I for one will be awake Sunday night, Oct 7, when the Nobel Committee makes its annual announcement. Mary Claire is obviously a leading candidate for that award.
- The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awards — announced this morning that UW Prof. Mary-Claire King is one of five scientists being honored. Mary Claire won the award not only for her discovery of BRCA1, a gene that in a mutated form increases vulnerability to breast cancer but also for her use of DNA strategies to reunite missing persons with their families of origin after the fall of the totalitarian regime in Argentina.
Mary Claire’s impact on biology is amazing. Some of it, beyond the purview of the Lasker committee, has been in her drive to make modern biology a hard science. She is a tough and inspiring role model for all young people who enter biology not for fame or money but to learn new things and use those discoveries to do good things.
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Posted 08 Sep 2014 by theaveeditor
in Science, The Ave Scene