STING Immune Pathway Discovery Earns Lasker Prize

Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, PhD, has been awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his 2012 discovery of how the cGAS-STING pathway senses cytosolic DNA to trigger immune responses. This research swiftly paved the way for the development of drug candidates aimed at enhancing anti-tumor immunity, with more than a dozen STING agonists now in human testing.