OER Congratulates Recent Nobel and Lasker Award Winners

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The 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to NIH grantee Dr. Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue University. Dr. Negishi shares the award with Dr. Richard F. Heck of the University of Delaware and Dr. Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University, Japan. The three researchers are honored for developing complementary methods to find more efficient ways of linking carbon atoms together to build complex molecules. This methodology has already allowed chemists to synthesize compounds to fight the herpes virus, HIV, and colon cancer.

The 2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Awards have been received by two NIH grantees, Dr. Douglas Coleman of Jackson Laboratory and Dr. Jeffrey Friedman of Rockefeller University. Their discovery of leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite and body weight, has led to new understandings in the field of obesity research.

NIH is proud to have supported the work of these scientists and heartily congratulates them on their contributions to the treatment of disease and the understanding of cellular mechanisms. For more information on the 2010 awardees, visit http://nobelprize.org/ and http://www.laskerfoundation.org.