Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

The Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service is awarded by the Lasker Foundation. It was previously known as the Albert Lasker Public Service Award, but was renamed in 2000 in honour of his wife. Past Winners include: "The Lasker Foundation - Awards". http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/formerwin.htm.  - Official Site
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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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Lasker Foundation

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Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 2007
  • For his role as the principal architect of two major U.S. governmental programs, one aimed at AIDS and the other at biodefense.
  • 2005
  • For creating one of the world's great foundations devoted to curing breast cancer and for dramatically increasing public awareness about this devastating disease.
  • 2003
  • For perceptive, sustained, and heroic advocacy for medical research in general, and victims of disability in particular.
  • 2001
  • For his courageous leadership in improving worldwide public health, and his prominent role in the eradication of smallpox.
  • 1995
  • For energetic leadership and enduring advocacy in support of biomedical research.
  • 1989
  • Scientist, administrator, catalyst and teacher, the poet laureate of 20th-century medicine.
  • 1988
  • For his compassion and dedication in the fight to eradicate disease and disability through federal funding of medical research and public health programs.
  • 1986
  • For his legendary contributions to the control and eradication of venereal diseases and leprosy in China, greatly improving the health of a billion people.
  • 1984
  • For developing the Heimlich Maneuver, which has prevented many thousands of needless deaths.
  • 1979
  • For his dynamic leadership in organizing practical programs to alleviate, prevent, and treat blinding eye diseases.
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