Lauren Gardner, a scientist from Johns Hopkins University, won this years Lasker award for public service after creating a global COVID-19 tracker.
Johns Hopkins University civil engineering professor Lauren Gardner, above, won the 2022 Lasker public service award. She worked with her lab team to develop a COVID-19 tracker as the coronavirus began spreading worldwide in January 2020.The dashboard set"a new standard for public health data science" and helped inform both personal decisions and policy, the Lasker Foundation said in a release.
The prize for medical research was awarded to Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, a molecular biologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, for creating a prenatal blood test that can check for Down syndrome and other genetic conditions. Lo found
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