Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science.[1] The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.

List of recipients

Selman Waksman
Marshall W. Nirenberg
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Aaron Ciechanover
YearRecipient
2023Demis Hassabis[2]
John M. Jumper
2022Richard O. Hynes[3]
Erkki Ruoslahti
Timothy A. Springer
2021Karl Deisseroth[4]
Peter Hegemann
Dieter Oesterhelt
2020not awarded  
2019Max Dale Cooper
Jacques Miller
2018C. David Allis
Michael Grunstein
2017Michael N. Hall
2016William Kaelin, Jr.
Peter J. Ratcliffe
Gregg L. Semenza[5]
2015Stephen J. Elledge
Evelyn M. Witkin
2014Kazutoshi Mori
Peter Walter
2013Richard H. Scheller
Thomas C. Südhof[6]
2012Michael Sheetz
James Spudich
Ronald Vale
2011Franz-Ulrich Hartl
Arthur L. Horwich
2010Douglas L. Coleman
Jeffrey M. Friedman
2009John Gurdon
Shinya Yamanaka[7]
2008Victor R. Ambros
David C. Baulcombe
Gary B. Ruvkun
2007Ralph M. Steinman
2006Elizabeth Blackburn
Carol W. Greider
Jack Szostak
2005Ernest McCulloch
James Till
2004Pierre Chambon
Ronald M. Evans
Elwood V. Jensen
2003Robert G. Roeder
2002James E. Rothman
Randy W. Schekman
2001Mario Capecchi
Martin Evans
Oliver Smithies
2000Aaron Ciechanover
Avram Hershko
Alexander Varshavsky
YearRecipient
1999Clay Armstrong
Bertil Hille
Roderick MacKinnon
1998Leland H. Hartwell
Yoshio Masui
Paul Nurse
1997Mark S. Ptashne
1996Robert F. Furchgott
Ferid Murad
1995Peter C. Doherty
Jack L. Strominger
Emil R. Unanue
Don C. Wiley
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1994Stanley B. Prusiner
1993Günter Blobel
1992not awarded  
1991Edward B. Lewis
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
1990not awarded  
1989Michael J. Berridge
Alfred G. Gilman
Edwin G. Krebs
Yasutomi Nishizuka
1988Thomas R. Cech
Phillip A. Sharp
1987Leroy Hood
Philip Leder
Susumu Tonegawa
1986Rita Levi-Montalcini
Stanley Cohen
1985Michael S. Brown
Joseph L. Goldstein
1984Michael Potter
Georges J. F. Köhler
César Milstein
1983Eric R. Kandel
Vernon B. Mountcastle
1982J. Michael Bishop
Raymond L. Erikson
Hidesaburo Hanafusa
Harold E. Varmus
Robert C. Gallo
1981Barbara McClintock
1980Paul Berg
Herbert W. Boyer
Stanley N. Cohen
A. Dale Kaiser
YearRecipient
1979Walter Gilbert
Frederick Sanger
Roger Wolcott Sperry
1978Hans W. Kosterlitz
John Hughes
Solomon H. Snyder
1977K. Sune D. Bergström
Bengt Samuelsson
John R. Vane
1976Rosalyn S. Yalow
1975Roger C.L. Guillemin
Andrew V. Schally
Frank J. Dixon
Henry G. Kunkel
1974Ludwik Gross
Howard E. Skipper
Sol Spiegelman
Howard M. Temin
1973not awarded  
1972not awarded  
1971Seymour Benzer
Sydney Brenner
Charles Yanofsky
1970Earl W. Sutherland
1969Bruce Merrifield
1968Marshall W. Nirenberg
H. Gobind Khorana
William F. Windle
1967Bernard B. Brodie
1966George E. Palade
1965Robert W. Holley
1964Renato Dulbecco
Harry Rubin (de)
1963Lyman C. Craig
1962Choh H. Li
1961not awarded  
1960M.H.F. Wilkins
F.H.C. Crick
James D. Watson
James V. Neel
L.S. Penrose
Ernst Ruska
James Hillier
YearRecipient
1959Albert Coons
Jules Freund
1958Peyton Rous
Theodore Puck
Alfred D. Hershey
Gerhard Schramm (de)
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
Irvine H. Page
1957Isaac Starr
1956Karl Meyer
Francis O. Schmitt
1955Karl Paul Link
Carl J. Wiggers
1954Edwin B. Astwood
John Franklin Enders
Albert Szent-Györgyi
1953Hans A. Krebs
Michael Heidelberger
George Wald
1952Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1951Karl Friedrich Meyer
1950George Wells Beadle
1949André Cournand
William S. Tillett
L. Royal Christensen
1948Vincent du Vigneaud
Selman Waksman
René J. Dubos
1947Oswald T. Avery
Homer Smith
1946Carl Ferdinand Cori

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