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. The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.
List of recipients
+ 2000–present Year Recipient2026 Emmanuel MignotLasker Basic Research Award 2026 Masashi Yanagisawa2025 Dirk GörlichLasker Basic Research Award 2025 Steven L. McKnight2024 Zhijian ChenLasker Basic Research Award 20242023 Demis HassabisLaureates 2023 John M. Jumper2022 Richard O. HynesLaureates 2022 Erkki Ruoslahti Timothy A. Springer2021 Karl Deisseroth Peter Hegemann Dieter Oesterhelt 2020 not awarded 2019 Max Dale Cooper Jacques Miller2018 C. David Allis Michael Grunstein2017 Michael N. Hall2016 William Kaelin Jr. Peter J. Ratcliffe Gregg L. Semenza2015 Stephen J. Elledge Evelyn M. Witkin2014 Kazutoshi Mori Peter Walter2013 Richard H. Scheller Thomas C. Südhof2012 Michael Sheetz James Spudich Ronald Vale2011 Franz-Ulrich Hartl Arthur L. Horwich2010 Douglas L. Coleman Jeffrey M. Friedman2009 John Gurdon Shinya Yamanaka2008 Victor R. Ambros David C. Baulcombe Gary B. Ruvkun2007 Ralph M. Steinman2006 Elizabeth Blackburn Carol W. Greider Jack Szostak2005 Ernest McCulloch James Till2004 Pierre Chambon Ronald M. Evans Elwood V. Jensen2003 Robert G. Roeder2002 James E. Rothman Randy W. Schekman2001 Mario Capecchi Martin Evans Oliver Smithies2000 Aaron Ciechanover Avram Hershko Alexander Varshavsky
+ 1980–1999 Year Recipient1999 Clay Armstrong Bertil Hille Roderick MacKinnon1998 Leland H. Hartwell Yoshio Masui Paul Nurse1997 Mark S. Ptashne1996 Robert F. Furchgott Ferid Murad1995 Peter C. Doherty Jack L. Strominger Emil R. Unanue Don C. Wiley Rolf M. Zinkernagel1994 Stanley B. Prusiner1993 Günter Blobel1992 not awarded 1991 Edward B. Lewis Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard1990 not awarded 1989 Michael J. Berridge Alfred G. Gilman Edwin G. Krebs Yasutomi Nishizuka1988 Thomas R. Cech Phillip A. Sharp1987 Leroy Hood Philip Leder Susumu Tonegawa1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini Stanley Cohen1985 Michael S. Brown Joseph L. Goldstein1984 Michael Potter Georges J. F. Köhler César Milstein1983 Eric R. Kandel Vernon B. Mountcastle1982 J. Michael Bishop Raymond L. Erikson Hidesaburo Hanafusa Harold E. Varmus Robert C. Gallo1981 Barbara McClintock1980 Paul Berg Herbert W. Boyer Stanley N. Cohen A. Dale Kaiser
+ 1960–1979 Year Recipient1979 Walter Gilbert Frederick Sanger Roger Wolcott Sperry1978 Hans W. Kosterlitz John Hughes Solomon H. Snyder1977 K. Sune D. Bergström Bengt Samuelsson John R. Vane1976 Rosalyn S. Yalow1975 Roger C.L. Guillemin Andrew V. Schally Frank J. Dixon Henry G. Kunkel1974 Ludwik Gross Howard E. Skipper Sol Spiegelman Howard M. Temin1973 not awarded 1972 not awarded 1971 Seymour Benzer Sydney Brenner Charles Yanofsky1970 Earl W. Sutherland1969 Bruce Merrifield1968 Marshall W. Nirenberg H. Gobind Khorana William F. Windle1967 Bernard B. Brodie1966 George E. Palade1965 Robert W. Holley1964 Renato Dulbecco Harry Rubin (de)1963 Lyman C. Craig1962 Choh H. Li1961 not awarded 1960 M.H.F. Wilkins F.H.C. Crick James D. Watson James V. Neel L.S. Penrose Ernst Ruska James Hillier
+ 1946–1959 Year Recipient1959 Albert Coons Jules Freund1958 Peyton Rous Theodore Puck Alfred D. Hershey Gerhard Schramm (de) Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat Irvine H. Page1957 Isaac Starr1956 Karl Meyer Francis O. Schmitt1955 Karl Paul Link Carl J. Wiggers1954 Edwin B. Astwood John Franklin Enders Albert Szent-Györgyi1953 Hans A. Krebs Michael Heidelberger George Wald1952 Frank Macfarlane Burnet1951 Karl Friedrich Meyer1950 George Wells Beadle1949 André Cournand William S. Tillett L. Royal Christensen1948 Vincent du Vigneaud Selman Waksman René J. Dubos1947 Oswald T. Avery Homer Smith1946 Carl Ferdinand Cori
See also
List of biomedical science awards
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