Lasker Award
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 Woodard Lasker (later an influential medical research activist). The awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels". Seventy-six Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 28 in the last two decades. Maria C. Freire is the current President of the Foundation.
The four main awards are:
- Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
- Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
- Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award (renamed in 2000 from Albert Lasker Public Service Award)
- Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science (1994–)
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