Mary-Claire King wins 2014 Lasker Award
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Donna Karolchik
Sep 10, 2014, 6:24:57 PM9/10/14
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Our heartfelt congratulations to Mary-Claire King, a long-time member of
the Genome Browser Scientific Advisory Board, who has won the 2014
Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science:
"For bold, imaginative, and diverse contributions to medical science and
human rights —- she discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that causes
hereditary breast cancer and deployed DNA strategies that reunite
missing persons or their remains with their families."
You can read the entire story here:
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/2014_s_description.htm.
-Donna
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Donna Karolchik
UCSC Genome Browser Senior Program Manager
http://genome.ucsc.edu
the Genome Browser Scientific Advisory Board, who has won the 2014
Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science:
"For bold, imaginative, and diverse contributions to medical science and
human rights —- she discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that causes
hereditary breast cancer and deployed DNA strategies that reunite
missing persons or their remains with their families."
You can read the entire story here:
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/2014_s_description.htm.
-Donna
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Donna Karolchik
UCSC Genome Browser Senior Program Manager
http://genome.ucsc.edu
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