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Japanese Statin Discoverer Gets His Due With Lasker Award

Posted on September 29, 2008

The big gongs of the medical world are beginning to sound for Akira Endo, the Japanese scientist who discovered the first cholesterol-lowering statin back in 1973. On Friday, he picked up a Lasker Award for clinical medical research. The awards, sometimes called the American Nobel, and carry a $300,000 honorarium this year. That means we ll have to update our profile of Endo from a few years back, where we said that he never earned a penny from the discovery that has affected tens of millions of lives. The statin class includes Pfizer s Lipitor, Merck s Zocor and AstraZeneca s Cr...

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