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Four Japanese scientists win prestigious U.S. Lasker Awards
Four Japanese scientists and Michael J. Fox were honored for discoveries that led to sleep medicines and a hemophilia A therapy used by 30,000 people.
- On Wednesday, the Lasker Foundation announced this year's "America's Nobel Prizes," honoring four Japanese researchers for breakthroughs in sleep science and hemophilia treatment.
- Emmanuel Mignot of the Stanford University School and Masashi Yanagisawa of the University of Tsukuba won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for identifying orexin, a brain peptide that regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
- Chugai Pharmaceutical researchers Kunihiro Hattori, Takehisa Kitazawa, and Tomoyuki Igawa received the DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for creating an antibody treatment that has helped over 30,000 people across over 100 countries.
- The Bloomberg Public Service Award went to Michael Fox for his advocacy work; The Michael Fox Foundation has funded more than $3 billion in Parkinson research since 2000.
- Each recipient will receive a $250,000 honorarium during the official presentation on Sept. 17 in New York City, honoring a legacy established in 1942 by Albert and Mary Lasker.
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