Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research ( Albert Lasker Prize for basic medical research ) is awarded by the American Lasker Foundation (Lasker Foundation). The aim of the award is to honor and promote basic medical research .
The price is valid along with the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award ( Lasker-DeBakey Award for Clinical Medical Research ) as the highest medical and scientific award in the US and unofficial "American Nobel Prize in Medicine". 68 of the 161 award winners (as of 2019) later also received a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine , nine a Nobel Prize for Chemistry , and one ( Ernst Ruska ) a Nobel Prize for Physics .
In addition to the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, there is also the Lasker ~ Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science (formerly the Albert Lasker Achievement Award).
Award winners
- 1946: Carl Ferdinand Cori
- 1947: Oswald Avery , Homer Smith
- 1948: Vincent du Vigneaud , Selman Abraham Waksman , René Dubos
- 1949: André Frédéric Cournand , William S. Tillett , LR Christensen
- 1950: George Wells Beadle
- 1951: Karl Friedrich Meyer
- 1952: Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- 1953: Hans Adolf Krebs , Michael Heidelberger , George Wald
- 1954: Edwin B. Astwood , John Franklin Enders , Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt
- 1955: Karl Paul Link , Carl J. Wiggers
- 1956: Karl Meyer , Francis Otto Schmitt
- 1957: Isaac Starr
- 1958: Francis Peyton Rous , Theodore Puck , Alfred Day Hershey , Gerhard Schramm , Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat , Irvine Page
- 1959: Albert Hewett Coons , Jules T. Freund
- 1960: Maurice Wilkins , Francis Crick , James Watson , James V. Neel , Lionel Penrose , Ernst Ruska , James Hillier
- 1962: Choh Hao Li
- 1963: Lyman C. Craig
- 1964: Renato Dulbecco , Harry Rubin
- 1965: Robert W. Holley
- 1966: George Emil Palade
- 1967: Bernard B. Brodie
- 1968: Marshall Warren Nirenberg , Har Gobind Khorana , William F. Windle
- 1969: Robert Bruce Merrifield
- 1970: Earl Wilbur Sutherland
- 1971: Seymour Benzer , Sydney Brenner , Charles Yanofsky
- 1974: Ludwik Gross , Howard E. Skipper , Sol Spiegelman , Howard M. Temin
- 1975: Roger Charles Louis Guillemin , Andrew Victor Schally , Frank J. Dixon , Henry G. Kunkel
- 1976: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
- 1977: Sune Bergström , Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson , John Robert Vane
- 1978: Hans Walter Kosterlitz , John Hughes , Solomon H. Snyder
- 1979: Walter Gilbert , Frederick Sanger , Roger Sperry
- 1980: Paul Berg , Herbert W. Boyer , Stanley Norman Cohen , A. Dale Kaiser
- 1981: Barbara McClintock
- 1982: John Michael Bishop , Raymond L. Erikson , Hidesaburō Hanafusa , Harold Elliot Varmus , Robert Charles Gallo
- 1983: Eric Kandel , Vernon Mountcastle
- 1984: Michael Potter , Georges JF Köhler , César Milstein
- 1985: Michael Stuart Brown , Joseph L. Goldstein
- 1986: Rita Levi-Montalcini , Stanley Cohen
- 1987: Leroy Hood , Philip Leder , Tonegawa Susumu
- 1988: Thomas R. Cech , Phillip Allen Sharp
- 1989: Michael Berridge , Alfred Goodman Gilman , Edwin Gerhard Krebs , Yasutomi Nishizuka
- 1991: Edward B. Lewis , Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
- 1993: Günter Blobel
- 1994: Stanley Prusiner
- 1995: Peter Doherty , Jack L. Strominger , Emil R. Unanue , Don Craig Wiley , Rolf Zinkernagel
- 1996: Robert Francis Furchgott , Ferid Murad
- 1997: Mark Ptashne
- 1998: Leland H. Hartwell , Yoshio Masui , Paul Nurse
- 1999: Clay Armstrong , Bertil Hille , Roderick MacKinnon
- 2000: Aaron Ciechanover , Avram Hershko , Alexander Varshavsky
- 2001: Mario Capecchi , Martin Evans , Oliver Smithies
- 2002: James Rothman , Randy Schekman
- 2003: Robert G. Roeder
- 2004: Pierre Chambon , Ronald M. Evans , Elwood V. Jensen
- 2005: Ernest McCulloch , James Till
- 2006: Elizabeth Blackburn , Carol W. Greider , Jack Szostak
- 2007: Ralph M. Steinman
- 2008: Victor Ambros , David Baulcombe , Gary Ruvkun
- 2009: John Gurdon , Shin'ya Yamanaka
- 2010: Douglas Coleman , Jeffrey M. Friedman
- 2011: Franz-Ulrich Hartl , Arthur Horwich
- 2012: Michael Sheetz , James A. Spudich , Ronald Vale
- 2013: Richard H. Scheller , Thomas Südhof
- 2014: Kazutoshi Mori , Peter Walter
- 2015: Stephen J. Elledge , Evelyn M. Witkin
- 2016: William G. Kaelin, Jr. , Peter J. Ratcliffe , Gregg L. Semenza
- 2017: Michael N. Hall
- 2018: C. David Allis , Michael Grunstein
- 2019: Max D. Cooper , Jacques Miller
- 2020: no award