Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research

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. "The Lasker Foundation - Awards". http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/formerwin.htm.  - Official site
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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...

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Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1976
  • For development of propranolol in the treatment of heart diseases.
  • 2003
  • For discovery of anti-TNF therapy as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.
  • 1947
  • For contributions to our total knowledge of influenza, and the development of a vaccine effective against types A and B successfully used during World War II.
  • 1950
  • For outstanding contributions to the early diagnosis of cancer through cytological methods.
  • 1953
  • For distinguished achievement in the pathology, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
  • 1958
  • For distinguished contributions to the control of heart and blood vessel diseases through outstanding investigations into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.
  • 1962
  • For outstanding contributions to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of virus and rickettsial diseases, including the demonstration of the efficacy of chloramphenicol as a cure for rickettsial infections—typhoid fever and epidemic and scrub typhus.
  • 1964
  • For the introduction and use of iproniazid in the treatment of severe depression.
  • 1965
  • For the development of a live, oral poliovirus vaccine.
  • 1966
  • For his original use of aminopterin and methotrexate in the control of acute childhood leukemia, and for his constant leadership in the search for chemical agents against cancer.
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