The Lasker Foundation’s annual awards for medical research honor the inventors of optical coherence tomography and more.
The Lasker Foundation’s annual awards for medical research honor the inventors of optical coherence tomography, DeepMind’s AlphaFold program, and a legendary Dutch cancer researcher.any ophthalmologists’ offices around the country are home to a machine that enables doctors to take advantage of optical coherence tomography , a method of imaging the retina and other tissues in the eye.
In 1991, the trio published their first paper describing the technique they invented. “In less than a year, we were able to develop this new imaging technology,” Huang toldSince the publication of that first paper, OCT has grown to. Doctors now routinely use the technology to diagnose diseases such as glaucoma, diabetes-related vision impairment and even coronary artery disease. “The impact on public health can be very large,” Fujimoto said.
This year the Lasker Foundation awarded a Special Achievement Award to Dutch scientist Piet Borst from the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Over his 50-year career, Borst has made a number of discoveries. In the 1960s, he and his collaborators discovered genes that were key to understanding how parasites are able to evade the immune system in diseases such as sleeping sickness.
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