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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 15 > Honoring work on statins, bacteria and bits of RNA

Honoring work on statins, bacteria and bits of RNA

Medical research awards span a variety of topics

By Lawrence K. Altman / The Bulletin
September 15, 2008

Akira Endo, a Japanese scientist whose discovery of the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug helped extend the lives of millions of people, is one of five winners of this year’s Lasker Awards for medical research, it was announced Saturday.

An American microbiologist, Stanley Falkow,....

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