title: Lasker lauds leptin.
abstract: This year, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award will be shared by Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman for their discovery of leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite and body weight. By uncovering a critical physiologic system, their discovery markedly accelerated our capacity to apply molecular and genetic techniques to understand obesity.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Dean, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. jeffrey_flier@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Flier
authors.forename: Eleftheria
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maratos-Flier
mesh_terms: D001066:Appetite; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D020738:Leptin / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D020738:Leptin