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The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced today the recipients of the 2018 Lasker Awards. Among the four recipients was , a professor of biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators and a member of the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½.

Joan SteitzAlbert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Steitz won the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science “for four decades of leadership in biomedical science — exemplified by pioneering discoveries in RNA biology, generous mentorship of budding scientists, and vigorous and passionate support of women in science,” according to a .

Over her pioneering career in RNA biology, for which she won the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½’s , Steitz has been known as a generous mentor to young scientists and an ardent voice for inclusion in the scientific community. (.)

Steitz, a former member of the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Council and a past winner of the society’s Lipmann lectureship, will accept her Lasker award Sept. 24.

The other 2018 Lasker winners were:

• David Allis and Michael Grunstein, who won the Basic Medical Research Award for their studies of histone modifications and gene expression. (Allis was an 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ annual meeting plenary lecturer in 2015. . Also, about diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a deadly pediatric brain cancer. Allis is quoted.)


• John B. Glen, who won the Clinical Research Award for the discovery and development of the anesthetic propofol.