The Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research is awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. 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. ...

• 1946 John Friend Mahoney, Karl Landsteiner (posthumously), Alexander S. Wiener, Philip Levine
• 1949 Max Theiler, Edward C. Kendall, Philip S. Hench
• 1950 George Papanicolaou
• 1951 Elise L'Esperance, Catherine Macfarlane, William G. Lennox, Frederic A. Gibbs
• 1952 Conrad A. Elvehjem, Frederick S. McKay, H. Trendley Dean
• 1953 Paul Dudley White
• 1954 Alfred Blalock, Helen B. Taussig, Robert E. Gross
• 1955 Morley Cohen, Herbert E. Warden, Richard L. Varco, Hoffmann-La Roch Research Laboratories, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Edward H. Robitzek, Irving Selikoff, Walsh McDermott, Carl Muschenheim
• 1956 Louis N. Katz, Jonas E. Salk, V. Everett Kinsey, Arnall Patz
• 1957 Rustom Jal Vakil, Nathan S. Kline, Robert H. Noce, Henri Laborit, Pierre Deniker, Heinz E. Lehmann, Richard E. Shope
• 1958 Robert W. Wilkins
• 1959 John Holmes Dingle, Gilbert Dalldorf, Robert E. Gross
• 1960 Karl Paul Link, Irving S. Wright, Edgar V. Allen
• 1962 Joseph E. Smadel
• 1963 Michael E. DeBakey, Charles Huggins
• 1964 Nathan S. Kline
• 1965 Albert B. Sabin
• 1966 Syndey Farber
• 1967 Robert Allan Phillips
• 1969 George C. Cotzias
• 1970 Robert A. Good
• 1971 Edward D. Freis
• 1972 Min Chiu Li, Roy Hertz, Denis Burkitt, Joseph H. Burchenal, V. Anomah Ngu, John L. Ziegler, Edmund Klein, Emil Frei III, Emil J. Freireich, James F. Holland, Donald Pinkel, Paul P. Carbone, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Eugene J. Van Scott, Isaac Djerassi, C. Gordon Zubrod
• 1973 Paul M. Zoll, William B. Kouwenhoven
• 1974 John Charnley
• 1975 Godfrey N. Hounsfield, William Oldendorf
• 1976 Raymond P. Ahlquist, J.W. Black
• 1977 Inge G. Edler, C. Hellmuth Hertz
• 1978 Michael Heidelberger, Robert Austrian, Emil C. Gotschlich
• 1980 Cyril A. Clarke, Ronald Finn, Vincent J. Freda, John G. Gorman, William Pollack
• 1981 Louis Sokoloff
• 1982 Roscoe O. Brady, Elizabeth F. Neufeld
• 1983 F. Mason Sones, Jr.
• 1984 Paul C. Lauterbur
• 1985 Bernard Fisher
• 1986 Myron Essex, Robert C. Gallo, Luc Montagnier
• 1987 Mogens Schou
• 1988 Vincent P. Dole
• 1989 Etienne-Emile Baulieu
• 1991 Yuet Wai Kan
• 1993 Donald Metcalf
• 1994 John Allen Clements
• 1995 Barry J. Marshall
• 1996 Porter Warren Anderson, Jr., David H. Smith, John B. Robbins, Rachel Schneerson
• 1997 Alfred Sommer
• 1998 Alfred G. Knudson Jr., Peter C. Nowell, Janet Rowley
• 1999 David W. Cushman, Miguel A. Ondetti
• 2000 Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton
• 2001 Robert Edwards
• 2002 Willem J. Kolff, Belding H. Scribner
• 2003 Marc Feldmann, Ravinder N. Maini
• 2004 Charles Kelman
• 2005 Alec Jefferys, Edwin Southern

Karl Landsteiner (June 14, 1868 - June 26, 1943), was an Austrian biologist. ... Philip Levine, a Jewish American poet, was born in 1928 in Detriot, Michigan. ... Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 - August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever. ... Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886 - May 4, 1972) was an American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones. ... 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. ... Categories: People stubs | 1883 births | 1962 deaths ... Paul Dudley White, M.D. (June 6, 1886 - October 31, 1973) was a pioneering cardiologist. ... Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 - September 15, 1964) was a 20th century innovator in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical emergency condition Shock and Blue baby syndrome. ... Helen B(roke). ... Jonas Salk (October 28, 1914 - June 23, 1995) is the discoverer/inventor of the eponymous Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine). ... Henri Laborit (November 21, 1914 - May 18, 1995) was a French physician, writer and philosopher. ... Joseph Edward Smadel (1907 - 1963), U.S. physician and virologist. ... Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D. (born September 7, 1908), is a pioneering cardiovascular surgeon and researcher. ... 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. ... Dr C. Gordon Zubrod Dr Charles Gordon Zubrod (1914-January 19, 1999) was an American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy for cancer. ... Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (28 August 1919 - 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of computerized axial tomography (CAT). ... Carl Hellmuth Hertz (1920-1990) was the son of Gustav Ludwig Hertz. ... Dr. Michael Heidelberger (1888 – June 27, 1991) was an American immunologist, he is regarded as the father of modern immunology. ... Paul Christian Lauterbur, (born May 6, 1929) is an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. ... Col. ... Dr. Robert C. Gallo Robert C. Gallo (born March 23, 1937) is a U.S. biomedical researcher. ... Luc Montagnier (born 1932) is a French virologist. ... Dr. Donald Metcalf AO AC FRS (b. ... Barry J. Marshall, M.D. is an Australian doctor and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. ... Dr Alfred G. Knudson Jr. ... Dr Janet Davison Rowley (born 1925) is an American human geneticist, she was the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. ... Robert Geoffrey Edwards, born September 29, 1925 in Leeds, England, is a physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Stub ... Sir Edwin Southern (born c. ...

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The award is mentioned in several Tom Clancy novels. Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. ...