The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science.

Cell biology is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells.

Glycosylation is the reaction in which a carbohydrate (or 'glycan'), i.

Harvard University is a renowned private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

The Kavli Prize was established in 2005 as a joint venture of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Kavli Foundation.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Membership of the National Academy of Sciences is an award granted to scientists that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States judges to have made “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”.