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Lasker Award Winner Mahlon DeLong

Nature Medicine volume 20, pages 1118–1120 (2014)Cite this article

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Mahlon DeLong, Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, shares the 2014 Lasker∼DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award with Alim Louis Benabid, Chairman of the Board at Clinatec Institute in Grenoble, France. DeLong and Benabid are honored for their work that led to the development of deep brain stimulation, a therapy that has helped relieve symptoms in thousands of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease.

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Figure 1: Normal basal ganglia circuitry (left) and the changes that occur during parkinsonism (right).

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Lasker Award Winner Mahlon DeLong. Nat Med 20, 1118–1120 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3687

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