AlphaFold developers and eye scan inventors among Lasker Award winners for 2023
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on AlphaFold, the deep learning AI system developed by DeepMind.
The prestigious Lasker Awards for biomedical research are sometimes referred to as “America’s Nobel,” and with good reason — about a fourth of Lasker laureates have gone on to receive the Swedish award, too.
The winners of the 2023 awards, announced on Thursday in New York, distinguished themselves in AI-enabled protein modeling, groundbreaking eye test technology, and in a wide-ranging career in medical science that combined innovative discoveries with attention to mentorship and leadership.
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