Zhijian “James” Chen, a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was awarded the 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for the discovery of the cGAS enzyme that ...
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Scientist who discovered body's 'fire alarm' against invading bacteria wins $250,000 Lasker prizeBiochemist Zhijian "James" Chen, director of the Inflammation Research ... of a critical enzyme — cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) — that acts like a fire alarm in the body.
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Dallas scientist wins prestigious Lasker Award for immune researchAn answer lies in a discovery made by James Chen, a professor of microbiology ... When the enzyme, called cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS), detects any type of DNA in the cell’s soupy interior ...
Caption Columbia will award the 2023 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Zhijian ‘James’ Chen and Glenn Barber for discovering the cGAS-STING pathway, a key component of one of the body’s first ...
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