/ H. Michael Shepard Content for Â鶹´«Ã½ en /news/news-briefs-alum-wins-lasker-award <p>Â鶹´«Ã½ alumnus H. Michael Shepard last Friday (Sept. 20) received one of the 2019 Lasker Awards, widely considered America’s top biomedical research prizes.</p> <p>He and two colleagues, Dennis J. Slamon and Axel Ullrich, shared the Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award and a $250,000 honorarium for their groundbreaking development of the drug Herceptin, a lifesaving therapy for women with HER2-positive breast cancer. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation honored the trio at a ceremony in New York City.</p> September 23, 2019 - 7:29pm Dave Jones /news/news-briefs-alum-wins-lasker-award