Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
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Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. The award was renamed in 2008 in honor of Michael E. DeBakey
. It was previously known as the Albert Lasker Award
for Clinical Medical Research.
Michael E. DeBakey
Michael Elias DeBakey was a world-renowned Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman...
. It was previously known as the Albert Lasker Award
Lasker Award
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary...
for Clinical Medical Research.
List of past winners
- 1946 John Friend Mahoney, Karl LandsteinerKarl LandsteinerKarl Landsteiner , was an Austrian-born American biologist and physician of Jewish origin. He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the...
(posthumously), Alexander S. WienerAlexander S. WienerAlexander Solomon Wiener , a lifelong resident of New York City, was recognized internationally for his contributions to medicine. He was an outstanding leader in the fields of forensic medicine, serology, and immunogenetics. His pioneer work led to discovery of the Rh factor in 1937, along with Dr...
, Philip LevinePhilip Levine (physician)Philip Levine was an imuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn and blood transfusion.-Life and career :... - 1949 Max TheilerMax TheilerMax Theiler was a South African/American virologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.-Career development:...
, Edward C. Kendall, Philip S. Hench - 1950 Georgios PapanikolaouGeorgios PapanikolaouGeorgios Nicholas Papanikolaou was a Greek pioneer in cytology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear".-Life:...
- 1951 Élise L'Esperance, Catherine Macfarlane, William G. LennoxWilliam G. LennoxWilliam Gordon Lennox was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.-Biography:...
, Frederic A. GibbsFrederic A. GibbsFrederic Andrews Gibbs was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.... - 1952 Conrad A. Elvehjem, Frederick S. McKay, H. Trendley Dean
- 1953 Paul Dudley WhitePaul Dudley WhitePaul Dudley White , American physician and cardiologist, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Herbert Warren White and Elizabeth Abigail Dudley. White's interest in medicine was sparked early in life, when he accompanied his father, a family practitioner, on rounds and house calls in a...
- 1954 Alfred BlalockAlfred BlalockAlfred Blalock was a 20th-century American surgeon most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot—known commonly as the blue baby syndrome—with Vivien Thomas and pediatric...
, Helen B. TaussigHelen B. TaussigHelen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetrology of Fallot...
, Robert E. GrossRobert E. Gross (surgeon)Robert E. Gross was a surgeon famous for being the first to cure patent ductus arteriosus by ligating it.-Sources:... - 1955 Morley CohenMorley CohenMorley Mitchell Cohen, CM CQ, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba , was a Canadian entrepreneur, community builder, philanthropist, and Member of the Order of Canada. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1940-1945. He is survived by his widow, Rita Lillian Cohen , and his two daughters: ...
, Herbert E. Warden, Richard L. Varco, Hoffmann-La Roch Research Laboratories, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Edward H. Robitzek, Irving SelikoffIrving SelikoffDr. Irving J. Selikoff was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments. His work is largely responsible for the regulation of asbestos today...
, Walsh McDermott, Carl Muschenheim - 1956 Louis N. Katz, Jonas E. Salk, V. Everett Kinsey, Arnall PatzArnall PatzArnall Patz was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 premature babies. Following his discovery, there was a sixty percent reduction in...
- 1957 Rustom Jal Vakil, Nathan S. KlineNathan S. KlineNathan S. Kline, M.D. was a man of diverse talents and interests whose mind was ever open to new ideas. He was best known for his pioneering work with psychopharmacologic drugs....
, Robert H. Noce, Henri LaboritHenri LaboritHenri Laborit was a French physician, writer and philosopher.Laborit was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and started his career as a neurosurgeon in the Marines and then moved on to fundamental research. He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957...
, Pierre DenikerPierre DenikerPierre Deniker was involved, jointly with Jean Delay and J. M. Harl, in the introduction of chlorpromazine , the first antipsychotic used in the treatment of schizophrenia, in the 1950's. Thorazine had been used in surgical procedures peri-operatively as an anti-nausea medication in France....
, Heinz E. Lehmann, Richard E. Shope - 1958 Robert W. Wilkins
- 1959 John Holmes Dingle, Gilbert Dalldorf, Robert E. Gross
- 1960 Karl Paul LinkKarl Paul LinkKarl Paul Gerhard Link was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of the anticoagulant warfarin.-Training and early career:...
, Irving S. Wright, Edgar V. Allen - 1962 Joseph E. Smadel
- 1963 Michael E. DeBakeyMichael E. DeBakeyMichael Elias DeBakey was a world-renowned Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman...
, Charles Huggins - 1964 Nathan S. KlineNathan S. KlineNathan S. Kline, M.D. was a man of diverse talents and interests whose mind was ever open to new ideas. He was best known for his pioneering work with psychopharmacologic drugs....
- 1965 Albert B. Sabin
- 1966 Sidney FarberSidney FarberSidney Farber was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, New York, the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1923. He took his first year of medical school at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany. He entered...
- 1967 Robert Allan PhillipsRobert Allan PhillipsRobert Allan Phillips MD, research scientist during WW II, developed battlefield methods to evaluate hemoglobin levels using specific gravity saving many lives. This method is presently used in blood donor clinics to determine whether a person is healthy enough to donate blood. Continuing in the...
- 1969 George C. CotziasGeorge CotziasGeorge C. Cotzias was a Greek-American scientist who together with his coworkers developed L-Dopa treatment, currently the most commonly used treatment for Parkinson's disease....
- 1970 Robert A. GoodRobert A. Good-External links:** can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School....
- 1971 Edward D. FreisEdward D. FreisEdward D. Freis was an American physician and researcher, who received the Albert Lasker Award for his studies of the treatment of hypertension.-Biography:...
- 1972 Min Chiu Li, Roy Hertz, Denis BurkittDenis Parsons BurkittDenis Parsons Burkitt , surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the son of James Parsons Burkitt. Aged eleven he lost his right eye in an accident. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen and Dean Close School, England...
, Joseph H. BurchenalJoseph H. BurchenalJoseph H. Burchenal, MD was an American oncologist, and a winner of the 1972 Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research. Dr. Burchenal died in Hanover New Hampshire on March 8, 2006. He was 93 years old.-References:...
, V. Anomah Ngu, John L. Ziegler, Edmund Klein, Emil Frei III, Emil J. Freireich, James F. Holland, Donald PinkelDonald PinkelDonald Pinkel is an American medical doctor who specializes in pediatric hematology and oncology.He has made contributions to cures for several forms of childhood cancer, including leukemia....
, Paul P. Carbone, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Eugene J. Van Scott, Isaac Djerassi, C. Gordon Zubrod - 1973 Paul M. Zoll, William B. KouwenhovenWilliam B. KouwenhovenWilliam Bennett Kouwenhoven , was an electrical engineer who developed closed-chest cardiac massage, part of CPR and also invented the first cardiac defibrillator.-Biography:...
- 1974 John CharnleyJohn CharnleySir John Charnley was a British orthopaedic surgeon. He pioneered the hip replacement operation, which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world...
- 1975 Godfrey N. Hounsfield, William Oldendorf
- 1976 Raymond P. Ahlquist, James W. BlackJames W. BlackSir James Whyte Black, OM, FRS, FRSE, FRCP was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist. He spent his career both as researcher and as an academic at several universities. Black established the physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline...
- 1977 Inge G. Edler, C. Hellmuth Hertz
- 1978 Michael HeidelbergerMichael HeidelbergerMichael Heidelberger was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins...
, Robert AustrianRobert AustrianRobert Austrian was an American infectious diseases physician and, along with Maxwell Finland, one of the 2 most important researchers into the biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the 20th century....
, Emil C. Gotschlich - 1980 Cyril A. ClarkeCyril ClarkeSir Cyril Astley Clarke KBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FRC Path, FRS was a British physician, geneticist and lepidopterist...
, Ronald FinnRonald FinnRonald Finn, was a medical researcher born in Liverpool, England. His research work contributed to advancing knowledge on the Rhesus factor...
, Vincent J. Freda, John G. Gorman, William Pollack - 1981 Louis Sokoloff
- 1982 Roscoe O. Brady, Elizabeth F. NeufeldElizabeth F. NeufeldElizabeth F. Neufeld is an American geneticist whose research has focused on the genetic basis of metabolic disease in humans.Neufeld and her Russian Jewish family emigrated to the United States from Paris in 1940; they had left Europe as refugees to escape Nazi persecution...
- 1983 F. Mason Sones, Jr.
- 1984 Paul C. Lauterbur
- 1985 Bernard FisherBernard Fisher (scientist)Bernard Fisher was Chairman of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.-Notes:This article uses public domain text from the National Cancer Institute.-Sources:...
- 1986 Myron Essex, Robert C. Gallo, Luc MontagnierLuc MontagnierLuc Antoine Montagnier is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus...
- 1987 Mogens SchouMogens SchouMogens Schou was a Danish psychiatrist whose groundbreaking research into Lithium led to its utilization as a treatment for bipolar illness. His work ultimately benefited thousands of patients worldwide....
- 1988 Vincent P. Dole
- 1989 Étienne-Émile BaulieuÉtienne-Émile BaulieuÉtienne-Émile Baulieu is a French biochemist and endocrinologist who is best known for his research in the field of steroid hormones and their role in reproduction and aging.-Biography:...
- 1991 Yuet Wai KanYuet Wai KanYuet Wai Kan FRS , is a Canadian and American medical scientist and physician. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology and the head of the Division of Molecular Medicine and Diagnostics at the University of California, San Francisco...
- 1993 Donald MetcalfDonald MetcalfEmeritus Professor Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA is an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne...
- 1994 John Allen Clements
- 1995 Barry J. Marshall
- 1996 Porter Warren Anderson, Jr., David H. Smith, John B. Robbins, Rachel Schneerson
- 1997 Alfred SommerAlfred Sommer (ophthalmologist)Alfred Sommer is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing severely vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a...
- 1998 Alfred G. Knudson Jr., Peter C. Nowell, Janet RowleyJanet RowleyJanet Davison Rowley is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers....
- 1999 David W. Cushman, Miguel OndettiMiguel OndettiMiguel Angel Ondetti was an Argentinean-born American chemist that first synthesized captopril, the first ACE inhibitor that was used to treat heart disease...
- 2000 Harvey J. AlterHarvey J. AlterHarvey J. Alter is an American medical researcher, virologist, and physician who is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus....
, Michael HoughtonMichael HoughtonMichael Alan Houghton was Bishop of Ebbsfleet from 1998 to 1999.Houghton was born on 14 June 1949 and educated at the University of Lancaster. He worked for British Rail and as a teacher before studying for the priesthood. He was a curate at All Hallows' Wellingborough followed by a period... - 2001 Robert EdwardsRobert Edwards (physiologist)Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards, CBE, FRS is a British physiologist and pioneer in Reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilization in particular. Along with surgeon Patrick Steptoe, Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise...
- 2002 Willem J. KolffWillem Johan KolffWillem Johan "Pim" Kolff was a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Willem is a member of the Kolff family, an old Dutch patrician family. He made his major discoveries in the field of dialysis for kidney failure during the Second World War...
, Belding H. ScribnerBelding H. ScribnerBelding Hibbard Scribner was a U.S. physician and a pioneer in kidney dialysis.-Biography:Scribner received his medical degree from Stanford University in 1945. After completing his postgraduate studies at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he joined the faculty of the School of Medicine at... - 2003 Marc FeldmannMarc FeldmannSir Marc Feldmann is an Australian immunologist, and a professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine where he is a head of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.-Biography:...
, Ravinder N. MainiRavinder N. MainiSir Ravinder Nath Maini is rheumatology professor at the Kennedy Institute, part of Imperial College London. Maini was born in Ludhiana in the Punjab region of India but has lived most of his life in the UK... - 2004 Charles KelmanCharles KelmanCharles D. Kelman was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in cataract surgery.Kelman was born in Brooklyn, New York to David and Eva Kelman. He grew up in Queens where he attended Forest Hills High School. After graduation, he attended Boston's Tufts University, where he earned a B.S...
- 2005 Alec JeffreysAlec JeffreysSir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes...
, Edwin SouthernEdwin SouthernSir Edwin Mellor Southern, FRS is an English 2005 Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist. His award was for the invention of the Southern blot, now a common laboratory procedure, when he was working at the University of Edinburgh.... - 2006 Aaron T. BeckAaron T. BeckAaron Temkin Beck is an American psychiatrist and a professor emeritus in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is widely regarded as the father of cognitive therapy, and his pioneering theories are widely used in the treatment of clinical depression...
- 2007 Alain CarpentierAlain F. CarpentierAlain Frédéric Carpentier M.D. Ph.D. is a French surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the father of modern mitral valve repair. He is the recipient of the 2007 Lasker Prize.-Biography:A professor emeritus at Pierre and Marie Curie University, in the...
, Albert StarrAlbert StarrAlbert Starr , is a noted cardiovascular surgeon and pioneer, inventor of the Starr heart valve, who resides and practices in the Portland, Oregon area. Starr is Medical Director of the Providence Heart and Vascular Institute. Albert Starr was born on June 1, 1926, in New York, New York. He... - 2008 Akira Endo
- 2009 Brian DrukerBrian DrukerBrian J. Druker is a physician-scientist at the Oregon Health & Science University. He is the director of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, and professor of medicine...
, Nicholas LydonNicholas LydonNicholas B. Lydon is a British scientist and entrepreneur. He won 2009 Lasker Clinical Award for the development of Gleevec, a selective BCR-ABL inhibitor for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia ....
, and Charles SawyersCharles SawyersCharles L. Sawyers is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. His work in the lab builds on the success of molecularly targeted cancer drugs with a focus on developing a new generation of treatment options for... - 2010 Napoleone FerraraNapoleone FerraraNapoleone Ferrara, M.D., Ph.D. is an Italian-American molecular biologist and is currently a Genentech Fellow in tumor biology and angiogenesis. He is credited with identifying the human VEGF gene and describing its proangiogenic properties, which formed the basis for the development of Genentech's...
- 2011 Tu YouyouTu YouyouTu Youyou , is a Chinese medical scientist, pharmaceutical chemist, and educator. She was awarded the 2011 Lasker Award in Clinical Medicine for discovering artemisinin , used to treat malaria.-Biography:...