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Aaron T. Beck, the father of cognitive therapy, turns 100 this month! Beck transformed the way psychiatric conditions are treated when he began to challenge the prevailing viewpoint that depression derived from subconscious, misplaced anger towards others...

Announcing the 2021 Essay Contest winners! This year, we asked participants: What is the most important scientific lesson you have learned from the Covid-19 pandemic? Discuss how that lesson will influence your research work and/or career. Discover the...

For this year’s Lasker Essay Contest, we asked medical, research, and public health trainees to tell us what the most important scientific lesson they learned from the Covid-19 pandemic was and how they will apply that lesson in their future work.
Since they wrote their essays in early 2021, a lot has happened: vaccines have become more widely available, many countries have begun lifting restrictions on how many people can work in research laboratories and more medical students are returning to...

Congratulations to the five co-winners of the 2021 Lasker Essay Contest!
“2020 was a year like no other” is a phrase we have all heard—many times. But what do we really mean by that? And what are we going to do about it? We asked graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, public health students, medical students, and residents...