Peter Walter, Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Kazutoshi Mori, Professor at Kyoto University, share the 2014 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work that resulted in identification of key components of the unfolded protein response (UPR). Walter identified the IRE1 component of the UPR in 1993, shortly after starting his laboratory at UCSF.
