Lasker Laureate Roscoe Brady was born #OTD in 1923.

🧪 Brady made pioneering contributions to the understanding of hereditary diseases, the development of effective genetic counseling procedures, and initiation of treatment by replacement of missing enzymes: http://ow.ly/hfJ750KH3sH

Happy 88th birthday, Leroy Hood! 🎉

🧪 Hood won a 1987 Lasker Award for showing how a limited amount of genetic information can give rise to an unlimited variety of antibodies. His scientific career spanned molecular immunology and engineering, genomics, & systems medicine: https://ow.ly/cMh350ZTylY

Happy 86th birthday, Bertil Hille! 🎂

🧪 Hille earned a 1999 Basic Medical Research Lasker Award for elucidating the functional and structural architecture of ion channel proteins, which govern the electrical potential of membranes throughout nature: https://ow.ly/BUNV50PUMth

“The 2026 Lasker Award recognizes not only a treatment that has changed care for people with hemophilia, but also a different way of thinking about drug design... a medicine can be engineered to bring existing components together and make them work again,” @forbes.com reports.

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Hegemann was born on Dec 11, 1954 in Münster, Germany and attended @mpibiochem.bsky.social. He's currently the Senior Research Chair for Neurosciences and a professor of Experimental Biophysics @humboldtuni.bsky.social. 🧪

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Deisseroth was born in Boston on Nov 18, 1971 and is a graduate of @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social. Today, he serves as the D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and a professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences at @stanford.edu and @hhmi-science.bsky.social.🧪

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#ICYMI: 🏆️ Lasker Laureates Karl Deisseroth and Pete Hegemann received the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine this week for optogenetics, a revolutionary technology that uses light-sensitive microbial proteins to explore the workings of the human brain.

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In his #Lasker2026 acceptance speech in September, Basic Medical Research Award winner Masashi Yanagisawa shares what it took for him and his team to make the “unexpected, serendipitous discovery that orexin-deficient mice suffer from the sleep disorder #narcolepsy.” 🧪

César Milstein was born #OTD in 1927. He created the 1st hybridomas, a powerful tool for producing monoclonal antibodies.

🧪 This work, which earned Milstein a 1984 Basic Medical Research Lasker Award, provided a diagnostic, therapeutic, & analytical tool still used today: http://ow.ly/oPOC50KH3Es

Today is #WorldSightDay, which focuses attention on vision impairment and global eye health.

🧪 Seven scientists and doctors have received Lasker Awards for their contributions to eye health, from pioneering treatments for blindness to channeling much-needed funding into eye research.

“It worked far better than I even dared to hope,” Karl Deisseroth says about optogenetics, a revolutionary neuroscience technique for which he shared the 2021 Basic Medical Research Lasker Award and the 2026 #NobelPrize. 🧪

🎥 But to get there, he says, “There were some sleepless nights.”

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🧪 The AAP/The American Society for Clinical Investigation/American Physician Scientists Association 2027 Joint Meeting, the premier conference for physician-scientists, will take place from Apr 9-11 in Chicago, Illinois: https://ow.ly/wSxi50ZVrJV

#ICYMI: Michael J. Fox received a #LaskerAward for his work fighting Parkinson’s. “[I knew] my name could attract attention to help us achieve our goals faster. I also have this disease. I know the issues & I share my community’s sense of urgency,” he told People Magazine in an exclusive interview🧪

#LaskerLaureate Kunihiro Hattori realized in high school that “Living only for myself is meaningless. I wanted to become someone who makes a difference in society,” he said in his 2026 Clinical Medical Research Award acceptance speech. 🧪

🏆 Read about the Award: https://ow.ly/Xjol50ZSUKP

Douglas Coleman was born #OTD in 1931.

🧪 Coleman of The Jackson Laboratory discovered leptin—the hormone that controls appetite and body weight—opening obesity research to molecular exploration. He shared a 2010 Lasker Award with Jeffrey Friedman for this work: http://ow.ly/USPI50KH2yt

Happy 89th birthday, Mario Capecchi! 🎉

🧪 Capecchi of The University of Utah was recognized with a 2001 Lasker Award and a 2007 #NobelPrize for developing gene targeting in mice, a powerful technology that allows the creation of animal models of human disease: https://ow.ly/Nmv550ZTxws

Today is #WorldMeningitisDay.

In 1996, 4 researchers received a Lasker Award for the development of the Hemophilus influenza type b (Hib) vaccine, which has all but eliminated childhood meningitis. ❤️‍🩹 How it and other vaccines have benefitted billions: https://ow.ly/yi1i50ZSU9o

#DefeatMeningitis 🧪

Discover how the Hib vaccine and others have benefitted billions of people worldwide. ⬇️

#DefeatMeningitis #SciSky 🧪

Dr. Mignot is a remarkably compassionate, dedicated scientist whose insights created one of the most moving of all my science journalism pieces- my brief time with him changed my understanding of sleep and its biological imperative. Honors are well-deserved! @laskerfdn.bsky.social