Lasker Award

It's an essential key component.

You know, the whole discovery of this pathway won the Lasker Award a couple years ago.

you know, for basic understanding of, you know, how do you activate myeloid cells for antigen presenting capabilities, et cetera, and get them up and functional and towards the pro-inflammatory.

Is it going to be the panacea? Probably not.

[classical music] What followed over the next three years is one of the fastest reputational reversals in recent scientific memory.

Moisov has since won every major award in the field, including the Lasker Award, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Tang Prize, the King Faisal Prize.

She was also made a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

Though she wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize this year, almost everyone we spoke to for this episode said it's only a matter of time.

Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 1998.

Modern medicine, think of this, Jews have won twenty-seven percent of the Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine, thirty-two percent of the Lasker Awards in Medical Research, forty-one percent of the Wolf Prizes in Medicine, forty-three percent of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prizes, thirty-eight percent of the Cancer Research Sloan Prizes, but they only comprise zero point two percent of the world population.

There are only forty million Jews in the world, and they have won fifty-six Nobel Prizes in Medicine.

Contrast that with China and India, for example, with populations of over a billion, and yet, yet they have only won one prize each.

So how big is his name in the field, honestly?

Lasker Award 1957, Stratton Award 1962, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1970, Officer of the Order of Canada 1976, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame 1998, over 300 papers.

That's the trophy case.

What does the field actually use?