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Albert Lasker Award
Albert Lasker Award The Albert Lasker Award celebrates scientists, physicians, and public servants whose accomplishments have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of many crippling and fatal diseases. The Lasker Award has come to be known as the "American Nobel" and is the most coveted award in medical science.

Since 1946, when the first Lasker Awards were presented, 20 recipients have been associated with The Rockefeller University.



Interactive Presentation

Albert Lasker AwardClick on the image to the left to open the Albert Lasker Award Flash presentation.
Basic Medical Research
2007  Ralph M. Steinman
2003  Robert G. Roeder
1999  Roderick MacKinnon
1998  Paul Nurse
1993  Günter Blobel
1982  Hidesaburo Hanafusa
1975  Henry G. Kunkel
1969  R. Bruce Merrifield
1966  George E. Palade
1963  Lyman C. Craig
1958  Peyton Rous
1948  Rene Dubos
1947  Oswald T. Avery

Clinical Research
1988  Vincent Dole
1978  Emil C. Gotschlich
1957  Richard E. Shope
1946  Karl Landsteiner
1946  Philip Levine

Special Achievement in Medical Science
2002  James E. Darnell, Jr.
1994  Maclyn McCarty


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