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Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
The 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...
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Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the...
Thomas Francis, Jr.
Thomas Francis, Jr. (July 15, 1900 – Template:1969-10-01) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in America, and in 1940 showed that there are other strains of influenza,...
Alexander S. Wiener
Alexander S. Wiener (March 16, 1907 Brooklyn, New York; - November 6, 1976 New York City), 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...
Philip Levine
Philip Levine (August 10, 1900 – October 18, 1987) was an imuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) and blood transfusion. He was born in Polish Russia. He moved with...
Georgios Papanikolaou
Georgios Nicholas Papanikolaou (or George Papanicolaou; Greek: Γεώργιος Παπανικολάου) (born on May 13, 1883, at Kimi on the island of Evia, in Greece, and dead on February 19, 1962) was a pioneer in cytology and early cancer detection.
He studied at...
Edward Calvin Kendall
Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886, South Norwalk, Connecticut – May 4, 1972, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American chemist who, together with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for...
Philip Showalter Hench
Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 – March 30, 1965) was an American physician who, with E. C. Kendall, in 1948 successfully applied an adrenal hormone (later known as cortisone) in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis at the Mayo Clinic....
Max Theiler
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 – August 11, 1972) 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.
Theiler was born in Pretoria, South Africa, his...
William G. Lennox
William Gordon Lennox (1884–1960) was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.
Lennox first became interested in epilepsy when working as medical missionary in...
Frederic A. Gibbs
Frederic Andrews Gibbs (1903–1992) was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.
Gibbs graduated from Yale and Johns Hopkins in 1929. He was offered a fellowship...
Conrad Elvehjem
Conrad A. Elvehjem, (May 27, 1901 – July 27, 1962), was internationally known as a biochemist in nutrition. In 1937 he identified a molecule found in fresh meat and yeast as a new vitamin, nicotinic acid, now called niacin. His discovery led...
Henry Trendley Dean
Henry Trendley Dean (August 25, 1893 – May 13, 1962), was the first director of the U.S. National Institute of Dental Research and a pioneer investigator of water fluoridation in the prevention of tooth decay.
Dean was born in Winstanley Park,...
Paul Dudley White
Paul Dudley White (June 6, 1886 – October 31, 1973), 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...
Michael Heidelberger
Michael Heidelberger (April 29, 1888 – June 25, 1991) 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...
Alfred Blalock
Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was a 20th-century American surgeon in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief...
Helen B. Taussig
Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 - May 20, 1986) 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...
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), colloquially referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, NY (both were graduates of Hamilton College), Bristol-Myers merged with...
Hoffmann-La Roche
F. Hoffmann–La Roche Ltd. is a Swiss global health-care company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: ROG).
The...
C. Walton Lillehei
Clarence Walton Lillehei (October 23, 1918–July 5, 1999), was an American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery, as well as numerous techniques, equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery.
C. Walt Lillehei was born in Minneapolis,...
Karl Paul Link
Karl Paul Gerhard Link (31 January 1901 - 21 November 1978) was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of the anticoagulant warfarin.
He was born in LaPorte, Indiana to a Lutheran minister of German descent as one of ten children. He...
Irving Selikoff
Dr. 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. He also co-discovered a...
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City, where his parents were Russian...
Henri Laborit
Henri Laborit (November 21, 1914 – May 18, 1995) 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...
Pierre Deniker
Pierre Deniker (born 1917) was involved, jointly with Jean Delay and J. M. Harl, in the introduction of chlorpromazine (Thorazine), the first antipsychotic used in the treatment of schizophrenia, in the 1950's. Thorazine had been used in surgical...
Heinz Lehmann
Heinz Edgar Lehmann (July 17, 1911 – April 7, 1999) was a German born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s.
Born in Berlin, Germany, he was educated at the University of Freiburg,...
Richard Edwin Shope
Richard Edwin Shope( December 25, 1901–October 2, 1966) was an American virologist who was first to isolate an influenza virus, first to vaccinate animals against influenza, and first to identify the causative agent as a virus in the 1918-19 Spanish...
Robert Wallace Wilkins
Robert Wallace Wilkins(1906–2003) was an American medical investigator and educator, made many contributions in the research of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. He was the president of the American Heart Association in 1957 and received its...
Robert E. Gross
Robert E. Gross (1905–1988) was a surgeon famous for being the first to cure patent ductus arteriosus by ligating it.
Fisher, Jason C.; Hardy, Mark A.; Widmann, Warren D. (2005), "Robert E. Gross: the Heart of a Surgeon", Current Surgery 62 (5): 495...
Edgar Allen
Edgar Allen (May 2, 1892 – February 3, 1943) was an American anatomist and physiologist. He is known for the discovery of estrogen and his role in creating the field of endocrinology.
Born on Cañon (Canyon) City, Colorado, Allen was educated at...
Joseph Edward Smadel
Joseph Edward Smadel (1907 - 1963) was a U.S. physician and virologist. He introduced chloramphenicol as treatment for rickettsial diseases. In 1962, he became the first recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research .
Smadel was...
Michael E. DeBakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D. (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a world-renowned American cardiac surgeon, innovator, medical educator, and international medical statesman. DeBakey was the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in...
Nathan S. Kline
Nathan S. Kline, MD (1916-1982) is the only two-time winner of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, an award sometimes referred to as "America's Nobel Prize." Kline was best known for his pioneering work with psychopharmacologic...
Albert Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin (August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was an American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine.
Sabin was born in Białystok, Russia (now Poland), to Jewish parents, Jacob and Tillie Saperstein, in 1921...
Charles Brenton Huggins
Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician and physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He and Peyton Rous were awarded the 1966...
Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) 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...
Robert A. Phillips
Dr. Robert A. Phillips PhD is a Canadian scientist, with a long-term interest in cancer research, and special interests in blood cell development and in retinoblastoma, an inherited eye tumour in children. His expertise has spanned the breadth of...
John Heysham Gibbon
John Heysham Gibbon Jr., AB, MD, (September 29, 1903 – February 5, 1973) a surgeon best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing the first open heart surgery (a repair of an atrial septal defect). He was the son of Dr. John Heysham...
Robert A. Good
Robert Alan Good (May 21, 1922 – June 13, 2003) was an American physician who performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant for an illness other than cancer and is regarded as a founder of modern immunology.
Robert Good was born in...
Edward D. Freis
Edward D. Freis (May 13, 1912 – February 1, 2005) was an American physician and researcher, who received the Albert Lasker Award for his studies of the treatment of hypertension. Born in Chicago, Illinois to Lithuanian immigrant parents, he had his...
Vincent T. DeVita
Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., MD is an internationally recognized pioneer physician in the field of oncology.
DeVita earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the College of William and Mary in 1957. He was awarded his MD degree with distinction from the...
Gordon Zubrod
Dr Charles Gordon Zubrod (January 22, 1914-January 19, 1999) was an American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy for cancer. He was one of the recipients of the 1972 Albert Lasker Awards in recognition of his...
