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Lasker Awards Honor Breakthroughs in Sleep Science, Hemophilia, and Parkinson’s Advocacy

The prestigious Lasker Awards, often called America’s Nobel, recognized major medical breakthroughs yesterday with each winner receiving $250,000. Stanford’s Emmanuel Mignot and Japan’s Masashi Yanagisawa won for discovering that a missing brain chemical causes narcolepsy, leading to an FDA-approved treatment. A trio of researchers won for developing a hemophilia A drug, and actor Michael J. Fox received the public service award for his Parkinson’s advocacy work.