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DR. RICEARD LERNER TO BE EONORED
BY PRESTIGIOUS KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
LA JOLLA, CA March 6,
of
the
Research
receive
Institute
an honorary
of
winner
highly
regarded
is
largest
the
On llay
Doctor
of
in
17,
as
worl-dwide for
school-
Nobel Prize
the
Medicine
M.D.,
in
director
La Jol1a,
from
organization
will
prestigious
the
sel-ects the
which
KaroLinska
Institutet
medical- research.
in
Sweden and has
is
also
The facility
a faculty
that
winners.
Institutet
to
Clinic
spring
the
its
Lerner,
Sweden.
the
medicine,
medical-
incl-udes several
this
of Stockholm,
Known inLernationally
Nobel- Prize
Richard
Scripps
doctorate
Institutet
Karolinska
1990
Lerner
award
willin
an honorary
ceremonies at
the
degree of
Stockhol-m Town
Hal l- .
The award honors Lerner's
is
regarded as one of
short
chains
antibodies
this
technology
the
physical
vaccines.
regions
of
protein
intact
could
biomedical
peptides
amino acids
against
peptide-based
that
of
the first
be turned
This
proteins
and three-dimensional
biomedical- research.
work in
to
the
in
and to
production
turn,
led
to
show that
be used to
to
are most antigenic
properties.
UORE
could
molecules,
work,
that
researchers
Lerner
elicit
suggest
of
the
that
synthetic,
discovery
share certain
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the
reality
pioneered
also
Lerner
concept
can
catalysts.
Moreover,
new
that,
be
they
monocl-onal antibodies
and
fel-1ow.
he
of
the
one of
joined
staff
Scripps
of
at
proteins
and other
In
the
addition,
Department of
research
is
the
numbers
and detect
more efficiently
leadership,
of
analysis
in
the
department
the Research Institute
than
the
the
he
received
at
Pal-o Alto
1965 as a research
Wistar
in
in
Institute
I970
and
L982.
of Scripps
In
research
three-dimensional
in
became
L987, he
Cl-inic.
has become
Research Institute
for
both
in
structural
structure
of
macromol-ecul-es.
the
work
Chemistry,
internationally
enzyme
colleagues
screen for
Clinic
the worldr s most advanced centers
and
his
internship
Clinic
appointments
rejoined
Lerner's
biology
and
where
an
Scripps
moLecul-ar biology
was named director
Under
University
He served
then
Following
Philadelphia,
to
thousand times
Stanford
14.D. degrees.
Hospi.tal,
chairman
possible
of
increasing
he
into
techniques.
attended
Lerner
Stanford
several
conventional
by using
properties
the
called,
were
turni.ng
circumstances,
appropriate
have
a method which makes it
developed
B.A.
that
and
the course of preparing
in
"abzymesr'as
conceptualizing
under
obtained
antibodies
of
in
in
which
molecular
recently
known chemists.
study
of
the
brain
Department of Neuropharmacol-ogy.
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biology
included
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has l-ed to
the
rapidly
and nervous
a new
recruitment
growing
system within
area
of
of
a new