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; Division of Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: jeffrey_flier@hms.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Flier
authors.affiliation: Division of Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: emaratos@bidmc.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Eleftheria
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maratos-Flier
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D035843:Biomedical Research; D020738:Leptin; D009765:Obesity
chemical_list: D020738:Leptin