Lasker Award 2024: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Zhijian Chen

   Biology

   For the discovery of the cGAS enzyme that senses foreign and self DNA, solving the mystery of how DNA stimulates immune and inflammatory responses

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S. Abdool Karim

   Biology

   For illuminating key drivers of heterosexual HIV transmission; introducing life-saving approaches to prevent and treat HIV; and statesmanship in public health policy and advocacy

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Joel Habener, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Svetlana Mojsov

   Biology

   For the discovery and development of GLP-1-based drugs that have revolutionized the treatment of obesity