Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

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The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine: almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.
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Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1946
  • For his contributions to the knowledge of carbohydrate metabolism, which clarify the action of insulin in diabetes.
  • 1947
  • For distinguished service through studies on the chemical constitution of bacteria.
  • 1947
  • For distinguished research on cardiovascular and renal physiology.
  • 1948
  • For his basic studies of transmethylation as essential to animal nutrition; for his contributions to the structure and synthesis of biotin and penicillin.
  • 1948
  • For their achievement in studies of the antibiotic properties of soil bacteria.
  • 1949
  • For outstanding contributions to the physiology of the circulation in man and the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
  • 1949
  • Joint award for the discovery and purification of the enzymes streptokinase and streptodornase.
  • 1950
  • For outstanding and fundamental contributions to the understanding of genetic control of metabolic processes.
  • 1951
  • For bacteriological research in parasitology.
  • 1952
  • For fundamentally modifying our knowledge of viruses and the inheritance of characteristics by viruses.
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