NIH
Intramural Lasker Award Winners
Names
are listed chronologically.
Last
updated: 3 May 2005.
1962.
Smadel, Joseph E. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his outstanding contributions
to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment
of virus and rickettsial diseases, including the
demonstration of the efficacy of chloramphenicol
as a cure for rickettsial infections-typhoid fever,
etc.”
1967.
Brodie, Bernard Beryl. Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award. “For his extraordinary
contributions to biomedical pharmacology.”
1967.
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren. Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award. “For his contribution
towards deciphering the genetic code.”
1972.
Carbone, Paul P. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his outstanding contribution
to the concept of combination therapy in the treatment
of Hodgkin's disease.”
1972.
DeVita, Vincent T. Lasker Award in Clinical
Research. “For his outstanding contribution to
the concept of combination therapy in the treatment
of Hodgkin's diseases.”
1972.
Frei, Emil III. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his outstanding contribution
in application of the concept of combination chemotherapy
to lymphoma and acute adult leukemia.”
1972.
Freireich, Emil J. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “He was recognized for
his outstanding contributions in combination chemotherapy,
and in supportive care of patients receiving combination
chemotherapy for acute leukemia.”
1972.
Hertz, Roy. Albert Lasker Clinical Medical
Research Award. “ For his outstanding contribution
to the successful chemotherapeutic treatment of
gestational choriocarinoma.”
1972.
Li, Min Chiu. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his outstanding contribution
to the successful chemotherapeutic treatment of
gestational choriocarcinoma.”
1972.
Van Scott, Eugene J. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his outstanding contribution
to the concept of topical chemotherapy in the
treatment of mycosis fungoides.”
1972.
Ziegler, John L. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his outstanding contribution
in increasing the cure rate of Burkitt's tumor
by chemotherapy.”
1981.
Sokoloff, Louis. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For developing a pioneering
method of mapping and measuring brain function,
both as a whole and in localized areas--a monumental
breakthrough in the understanding and diagnosis
of brain diseases.”
1982.
Brady, Roscoe O. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his pioneering contribution
to the understanding of hereditary diseases, the
development of effective genetic counseling procedures,
and initiation of possible treatment by replacement
of missing enzymes.”
1982.
Gallo, Robert C. Albert Lasker Basic
Medical Research Award. “For his pioneering studies
that led to the discovery of the first human RNA
tumor virus and its association with certain leukemias
and lymphomas.”
1982.
Neufeld, Elizabeth F. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For clarifying the molecular
basis and diagnosis of certain hereditary lysosomal
storage disorders that may cause growth abnormalities,
mental retardation, blindness, deafness and death.”
1984.
Potter, Michael. Albert Lasker Basic
Medical Research Award. “For his fundamental research
into the genetics of immuniglobulin molecules,
paving the way for the development of hybridomas.”
1986.
Gallo, Robert C. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For determining that
the retrovirus now known as HIV-1 is the cause
of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).”
1987.
Leder, Philip. Albert Lasker Basic Medical
Research Award. “For his elegant genetic studies,
particularly in carcinogenesis, and for developing
transgenic laboratory animals for the study of
cancer and other diseases.”
1996.
Robbins, John B. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For developing, with
Rachel Schneerson, a polysaccharide-protein conjugate
vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type B.”
1996.
Schneerson, Rachel. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For developing, with
John Robbins, a polysaccharide-protein conjugate
vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type B.”
1999.
Kety, Seymour Solomon. Albert Lasker
Special Medical Research Achievement Award. “His
research in neuroscience, especially his finding
a way to measure cerebral blood flow that led
to modern-day brain imaging techniques.”
2000.
Alter, Harvey J. Albert Lasker Clinical
Medical Research Award. “For his ongoing studies
to uncover the causes and reduce the risks of
transfusion-associated hepatitis.”
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