This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Topic Collections  • Psychiatry  • Statistics and Research Methods  • Alert me on articles by topic

Bridget M. Kuehn

JAMA. 2006;296:1451-1452.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

The 2006 Lasker Awards will be presented this week to a group of cell biologists who discovered telomerase, another cell biologist who developed in situ hybridization, and the psychiatrist who created cognitive therapy. These awards recognize scientists for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical research and are considered the most distinguished such honor in the United States.

"Scientists make great discoveries by pursuing curious observations, devising bold experiments, rigorously testing ideas, throwing aside conventional thought, and working with great persistence," said Joseph L. Goldstein, MD, Lasker Awardee, Nobel laureate, and chair of the international jury of researchers that selects Lasker recipients. "This year's Lasker Awards honor investigators who have demonstrated these ingredients of success."

The 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Research honors the discovery of telomerase by (from left) Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, of the University of California; Carol W. Greider, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University; and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

ENDS OF THE CHROMOSOME

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Research Evidence: Bambi Survives Godzilla?
Glass
JAMA 2008;300:1587-1589.
FULL TEXT