NEW YORK — Four scientists have won prestigious medical awards for genetics research and development of a widely used anesthetic nicknamed “milk of amnesia.”Winners of the $250,000 awards from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation were announced Tuesday. The clinical medicine award went to John B. Glen, who retired from the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, for discovering and developing the world’s most widely used drug for inducing anesthesia. The award for basic research was shared by C. David Allis of Rockefeller University in New York and Michael Grunstein of the University of California, Los Angeles. The prize for special achievement in medical science was awarded to Joan Steitz of Yale University. Steitz’s salary is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press Health & Science Department.

Source: National Post September 11, 2018 04:07 UTC