For the first time since its inception, the Albany Medical Center Prize, (the largest prize for medicine in the United States, and second world-wide only to the Nobel), was awarded to two women.
Dr. Joan Steitz of Yale University does research that has improved the lives of people suffering from a variety of auto-immune diseases, while Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn of UCSF discovered the enzyme telomerase, which repair telomeres on chromosomes (and many believe may be linked to aging).
The women will share the $500,000 prize.
Monday, May 05, 2008
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