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UT Southwestern professor of biochemistry Steven McKnight, along with Dirk Görlich of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Germany, won the 2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and its $250,000 prize, for transforming a “fundamental aspect of biology.”
“His work over the past three decades has exemplified our institution’s commitment to curiosity-driven research by advancing our understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms, which ultimately inform new approaches to disease treatment,” said Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D., President of UT Southwestern.
For details, head to UTSW’s newsroom.
