The 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award has been presented to William G.
Kaelin, Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza for the discovery and elucidation of
pathways by which humans and other multicellular organisms sense and respond to
changes in oxygen availability. How Homo sapiens solve the challenge of continuouslydeliveringoxygentoeachofthe1…
cellsthatcomprise the adult human body is central to the understanding of metazoan
evolution, development, physiology, and disease pathobiology. The combined discoveries …