Awards, Appointments, Announcements

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▪ The 2004 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards were presented to five recipients at a ceremony October 1 in New York.

The 2004 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research was shared by Pierre Chambon, M.D., of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France; Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif.; and Elwood V. Jensen, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago. The trio was honored for the discovery of the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors and the elucidation of a unifying mechanism that regulates embryonic development and diverse metabolic pathways.

Charles Kelman, M.D., who was a professor at the New York Medical College prior to his death this past June, will receive posthumously the 2004 Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for revolutionizing the surgical removal of cataracts through noninvasive surgery.

The 2004 Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science went to Matthew Meselson, Ph.D., of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., for a lifetime career that has combined discoveries in molecular biology—such as his work with Franklin Stahl that showed how DNA duplicates itself—with leadership in public policy aimed at eliminating chemical and biological weapons.