Awarding The Future of Medical Research

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 16, 2015

We speak with two of the 2015 Lasker prize winners! Evelyn M. Witkin won this year’s Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for her work in unraveling how cells detect and respond to DNA damage. Joanne Liu, International President of Medecins sans Frontieres will accept the Public Service award for Doctors Without Borders, earned especially for their response to the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa.

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