Encyclopedia > Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is 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. Past winners include: The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...
He holds numerous patents and awards for his scientific breakthroughs and prides himself on his life-long commitment to making science accessible and understandable to the general public, especially children.
Since then, his research has focused on the study of molecular immunology and biotechnology.
Hood has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers, received 12 patents, and co-authored textbooks in biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, and genetics, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Association of Arts and Sciences.
His extensive research with hormones led to the successful cloning of the estrogen receptor, which, along with the glucocorticoid receptor cloned by Dr. Evans, was the first nuclear receptor to be cloned.
Jensen, the 1980-81 President of The Endocrine Society and 1984 Fred Conrad Koch Award Winner, the Society's highest award, is presently Profressor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and Wile Professor for Cancer Research in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Evans, the 1999 Fred Conrad Koch Award winner, is a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and is the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California.
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