Health: Breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug extends life by decades
2025-09-12T09:33:36.000Z Three scientists have won a $250,000 award for their contributions to developing a life-saving therapy for the genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF). The prize, called the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, went to Dr. Michael Welsh of the University of Iowa, Paul Negulescu of Vertex Therapeutics and Jesús (Tito) González of Integro Theranostics. It's one of this year's Lasker Awards — biomedical-research prizes established in 1945 that are often called the "American Nobels."