Lasker Award
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The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodward Lasker (later an influential medical research activist). Highly prestigious, the awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels". As of 2005, 71 recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The four main awards are:
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
- Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service (renamed in 2000 from Albert Lasker Public Service Award)
- Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award (1994-)
[edit] Recent awards
Winners of the 2006 Lasker Awards were announced September 16, 2006. Among announcements were the following awards: (Reuters), (laskerfoundation.org)
- The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, for work on telomerase and genome integrity, went to:
- Elizabeth Blackburn (University of California, San Francisco),
- Carol Greider (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), and
- Jack Szostak (Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
- Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research:
- Aaron T. Beck (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) for developing cognitive therapy.
- Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award:
- Joseph G. Gall (Carnegie Institution of Washington) for his work as an early leader of modern cell biology, particularly for the development of in situ hybridization, and as an early champion of women in science.
[edit] External links
- The Lasker Foundation - Official site
