Lasker Prize awarded for hemophilia A drug breakthrough from 25 years ago

Three Japanese researchers received the Albert Lasker Award — called the medical Nobel — on September 17 for developing a bispecific antibody that replaces missing clotting protein in hemophilia A patients. The idea of using a molecule with completely different structure to mimic factor VIII was considered scientific heresy in 2000. The drug has transformed the lives of thousands of patients worldwide.

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