Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Annual science award
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The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science.[1] The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.
List of recipients




| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1979 | Walter Gilbert |
| Frederick Sanger | |
| Roger Wolcott Sperry | |
| 1978 | Hans W. Kosterlitz |
| John Hughes | |
| Solomon H. Snyder | |
| 1977 | K. Sune D. Bergström |
| Bengt Samuelsson | |
| John R. Vane | |
| 1976 | Rosalyn S. Yalow |
| 1975 | Roger C.L. Guillemin |
| Andrew V. Schally | |
| Frank J. Dixon | |
| Henry G. Kunkel | |
| 1974 | Ludwik Gross |
| Howard E. Skipper | |
| Sol Spiegelman | |
| Howard M. Temin | |
| 1973 | not awarded |
| 1972 | not awarded |
| 1971 | Seymour Benzer |
| Sydney Brenner | |
| Charles Yanofsky | |
| 1970 | Earl W. Sutherland |
| 1969 | Bruce Merrifield |
| 1968 | Marshall W. Nirenberg |
| H. Gobind Khorana | |
| William F. Windle | |
| 1967 | Bernard B. Brodie |
| 1966 | George E. Palade |
| 1965 | Robert W. Holley |
| 1964 | Renato Dulbecco |
| Harry Rubin (de) | |
| 1963 | Lyman C. Craig |
| 1962 | Choh H. Li |
| 1961 | not awarded |
| 1960 | M.H.F. Wilkins |
| F.H.C. Crick | |
| James D. Watson | |
| James V. Neel | |
| L.S. Penrose | |
| Ernst Ruska | |
| James Hillier |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1959 | Albert Coons |
| Jules Freund | |
| 1958 | Peyton Rous |
| Theodore Puck | |
| Alfred D. Hershey | |
| Gerhard Schramm (de) | |
| Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat | |
| Irvine H. Page | |
| 1957 | Isaac Starr |
| 1956 | Karl Meyer |
| Francis O. Schmitt | |
| 1955 | Karl Paul Link |
| Carl J. Wiggers | |
| 1954 | Edwin B. Astwood |
| John Franklin Enders | |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi | |
| 1953 | Hans A. Krebs |
| Michael Heidelberger | |
| George Wald | |
| 1952 | Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
| 1951 | Karl Friedrich Meyer |
| 1950 | George Wells Beadle |
| 1949 | André Cournand |
| William S. Tillett | |
| L. Royal Christensen | |
| 1948 | Vincent du Vigneaud |
| Selman Waksman | |
| René J. Dubos | |
| 1947 | Oswald T. Avery |
| Homer Smith | |
| 1946 | Carl Ferdinand Cori |