The Albany Prize Awarded to Biochemist Lynne Maquat

From the University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom:

View the full article here

One of the largest and most distinguished prizes in medicine in the United States, the 2024 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research was awarded to Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, director of the Center for RNA Biology at the University of Rochester. Maquat and co-winners Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine, and Adrian R. Krainer, PhD, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, were honored for their research on RNA mechanisms that contribute to a wide range of diseases, including spinal muscular atrophy, cancers, and autoimmune disorders. Their collective body of work has laid the foundation for the development of treatments targeting conditions that can’t be corrected with conventional drugs.

The J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Maquat has spent her career deciphering the many roles that RNA plays in sickness and in health and is well known for her discovery of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay or NMD. (click here to keep reading)

Author: Emily Boynton