Prestigious award recognizes Dr. Crooke’s outstanding research contributions in advancing biomedical science
n-Lorem, a nonprofit foundation, today announced that n-Lorem founder and CEO, Stanley Crooke, M.D., Ph.D., has been awarded the 2022 Steven C. Beering Award. This award recognizes Dr. Crooke’s seminal work in pioneering a new drug discovery platform that harnesses the power of antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) to target genetic disorders and the field-changing implications that Dr. Crooke’s outstanding work has had, and will continue to have, in biomedical sciences.
The Steven C. Beering Award is given by Indiana University School of Medicine to one person each year. It honors an internationally recognized individual for outstanding research contributions to advancing biomedical or clinical science. In selecting Dr. Crooke for the award, the committee recognizes Dr. Crooke’s lifetime dedication in creating and advancing ASO technology to alter the expression of genes and ultimately disease-causing proteins. It is through the efforts led by Dr. Crooke that ASO technology is now a highly regarded, validated, versatile and efficient drug discovery platform that has, and will continue to change, the landscape of untreatable diseases. Past winners of this prestigious award include Dr. George Church, Dr. William Kaelin, and Dr. George Stark.
Dr. Crooke founded n-Lorem Foundation in 2020 as the first, industrialized non-profit foundation to meet the challenges of some of the rarest of rare patients – nano-rare patients, which have illnesses so rare that fewer than 30 people worldwide are afflicted with them. These patients often have no treatment options because their illnesses are too rare for for-profit companies to invest in the research and development of therapies. Once n-Lorem discovers and develops a personalized treatment for each individual nano-rare patient, the ASO therapy is provided free for life.
As a hands-on scientific leader his entire career, Dr. Crooke is credited with inventing, advancing and validating a new drug discovery platform, RNA-targeted drug discovery, and using this platform to discover and develop life-changing therapies. Over the course of his career, Dr. Crooke has led the discovery and development of hundreds of drugs, including more than 23 commercialized drugs, and published more than 500 scientific publications.
The Steven C. Beering Award for the advancement of biomedical science will be presented to Dr. Crooke today at the Indiana University School of Medicine during a lecture and award presentation.
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