Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of four annual

awards An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be d ...

presented by the

Lasker Foundation In 1945 Albert Lasker and Mary Woodard Lasker created the Lasker Awards. Every year since then the award has been given to the living person considered to have made the greatest contribution to medical science or who has demonstrated public ser ...

. The Lasker–DeBakey award is given to honor outstanding work for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. This award was renamed in 2008 in honor of

Michael E. DeBakey Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general surgery, general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor ...

. It was previously known as the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.

List of past winners

*1946

John Friend Mahoney John Friend Mahoney (August 1, 1889 – February 23, 1957) was an American physician best known as a pioneer in the treatment of syphilis with penicillin. He won the 1946 Lasker Award. Mahoney led human experiments in Terre Haute prison and wa ...

Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner (; 14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of 55 for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller ...

(posthumously), Alexander S. Wiener, Philip Levine *1947 Thomas Francis Jr. *1948 not awarded *1949 Max Theiler, Edward C. Kendall, Philip S. Hench *1950

Georgios Papanikolaou Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (or George Papanicolaou ; ; 13 May 1883 – 19 February 1962) was a Greek physician, zoologist and microscopist who was a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the pap smear for d ...

*1951 Élise L'Esperance,

Catharine Macfarlane Catharine Macfarlane (1877–1969) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist who founded one of the first screening centers for uterine cancer in the United States. She was the first woman fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a ...

, William G. Lennox, Frederic A. Gibbs *1952 Conrad A. Elvehjem, ,

H. Trendley Dean Henry Trendley Dean (August 25, 1893 – May 13, 1962) was the first director of the United States National Institute of Dental Research and a pioneer investigator of water fluoridation in the prevention of tooth decay. Early life Dean was ...

*1953

Paul Dudley White Paul Dudley White (June 6, 1886 – October 31, 1973) was an American physician and cardiologist. He was considered one of the leading cardiologists of his day, and a prominent advocate of preventive medicine. Early life and education White ...

*1954

Alfred Blalock Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from ...

Helen B. Taussig Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the l ...

, Robert E. Gross *1955 C. Walton Lillehei, Morley Cohen ( de), , , Hoffmann-La Roche Research Laboratories, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, ,

Irving Selikoff Irving J. Selikoff (January 15, 1915 – May 20, 1992) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments. His work is largely responsible for the regulation of a ...

Walsh McDermott Walsh McDermott (October 24, 1909 – October 17, 1981) was an American physician, medical researcher and public health specialist. In his early career, he researched antibiotic agents against tuberculosis and syphilis, earning a Lasker Award for ...

, *1956 Louis N. Katz, Jonas E. Salk, ,

Arnall Patz Arnall Patz (June 14, 1920 – March 11, 2010) was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 ...

*1957 Rustom Jal Vakil, Nathan S. Kline, , Henri Laborit,

Pierre Deniker Pierre Deniker (16 February 1917, in Paris – 17 August 1998) was involved, jointly with Jean Delay and J. M. Harl, in the introduction of chlorpromazine (Thorazine), the first antipsychotic used in the treatment of schizophrenia, in the 1950s.K ...

, Heinz E. Lehmann, Richard E. Shope *1958 Robert W. Wilkins *1959 John Holmes Dingle, ,

Robert Edward Gross Robert Edward Gross (July 2, 1905 – October 11, 1988) was an American surgeon and a medical researcher. He performed early work in pediatric heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. Gross was president of the American Association for Thoraci ...

*1960

Karl Paul Link Karl Paul Gerhard Link (31 January 1901 – 21 November 1978) was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of the anticoagulant warfarin. Training and early career Link was born in LaPorte, Indiana to a Lutheran minister of German ...

, , Edgar V. Allen *1961 not awarded *1962 Joseph E. Smadel *1963

, Charles Huggins *1964 Nathan S. Kline *1965 Albert B. Sabin *1966

Sidney Farber Sidney Farber (September 30, 1903 – March 30, 1973) was an American pediatric pathologist at Boston Children's Hospital. He is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his work using folic acid antagonists to combat leukemia, which l ...

*1967 Robert Allan Phillips *1968

John Heysham Gibbon John Heysham Gibbon (September 29, 1903 – February 5, 1973) was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart–lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentiet ...

*1969 George C. Cotzias *1970 Robert A. Good *1971 Edward D. Freis *1972 Min Chiu Li, , Denis Burkitt, Joseph H. Burchenal, V. Anomah Ngu, , Edmund Klein, Emil Frei III, Emil J. Freireich, James F. Holland,

Donald Pinkel Donald Paul Pinkel (September 7, 1926 – March 9, 2022) was an American physician who specialized in pediatric hematology and oncology. Pinkel made contributions to cures for several forms of childhood cancer, including leukemia. He was the f ...

, ,

Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. Vincent Theodore DeVita Jr. (born March 7, 1935) is the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, and a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He directed the Yale Cancer Center from 1993 to 2003. He has been pre ...

, , , C. Gordon Zubrod *1973 Paul M. Zoll, William B. Kouwenhoven *1974

John Charnley Sir John Charnley, (29 August 1911 – 5 August 1982) was an English Orthopedic surgery, orthopaedic surgeon. He pioneered the hip replacement operation, which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the wo ...

*1975 Godfrey N. Hounsfield, William Oldendorf *1976 Raymond P. Ahlquist,

James W. Black Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rationa ...

*1977

Inge Edler Inge Gudmar Edler (17 March 1911 – 6 March 2001) was a Swedish cardiologist, who in collaboration with Carl Hellmuth Hertz developed medical ultrasonography and echocardiography Echocardiography, also known as cardiac ultrasound, is the u ...

, C. Hellmuth Hertz *1978

Michael Heidelberger Michael Heidelberger (April 29, 1888 – June 25, 1991) was an American immunologist, often regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show th ...

, Robert Austrian, Emil C. Gotschlich *1979 not awarded *1980 Cyril A. Clarke, Ronald Finn, Vincent 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 Luc Montagnier ( , ; 18 August 1932 – 8 February 2022) was a French virologist and joint recipient, with and , of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV). He worked as a rese ...

*1987 Mogens Schou *1988 Vincent P. Dole *1989

Étienne-Émile Baulieu Étienne-Émile Baulieu (; 12 December 1926 – 30 May 2025) was a French biochemist and endocrinologist who was best known for his research in the field of steroid hormones and their role in reproduction and aging. He has been nicknamed the “ ...

*1990 not awarded *1991

Yuet Wai Kan Yuet Wai Kan (; born June 11, 1936), is a Chinese-American geneticist and hematologist. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Chair in Hematology and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a former president ...

*1992 not awarded *1993

Donald Metcalf Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA (26 February 1929 – 15 December 2014) was an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. In 1954 he received the Carden F ...

*1994

John Allen Clements John Allen Clements (March 16, 1923 – September 3, 2024) was an American physician and physiologist known for his role in the discovery of pulmonary surfactant, a crucial factor in the development of life-saving treatments for neonatal respira ...

*1995 Barry J. Marshall *1996 Porter Warren Anderson, Jr., David H. Smith ( de), John B. Robbins, Rachel Schneerson *1997

Alfred Sommer Alfred (Al) Sommer (born October 2, 1942) is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A defici ...

*1998 Alfred G. Knudson Jr., Peter C. Nowell, Janet Rowley *1999 David W. Cushman, Miguel Ondetti *2000 Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton (virologist), Michael Houghton *2001 Robert Edwards (physiologist), Robert Edwards *2002 Willem Johan Kolff, Willem J. Kolff, Belding H. Scribner *2003 Marc Feldmann, Ravinder N. Maini *2004 Charles Kelman *2005 Alec Jeffreys, Edwin Southern *2006 Aaron T. Beck *2007 Alain F. Carpentier, Alain Carpentier, Albert Starr *2008 Akira Endo (biochemist), Akira Endo *2009 Brian Druker, Nicholas Lydon, and Charles Sawyers *2010 Napoleone Ferrara *2011 Tu Youyou *2012 Roy Calne, Thomas E. Starzl *2013 Graeme Milbourne Clark, Ingeborg Hochmair, Blake S. Wilson *2014 Alim-Louis Benabid, Mahlon R. DeLong *2015 James P. Allison *2016 Ralf Bartenschlager, Ralf F. W. Bartenschlager, Charles M. Rice, Michael J. Sofia *2017 Douglas R. Lowy, John T. Schiller *2018 John B. Glen *2019 H. Michael Shepard, Dennis J. Slamon, Axel UllrichLaureates 2019
/ref> *2020 not awarded *2021 Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman *2022 Yuk Ming Dennis Lo *2023 James G. Fujimoto, David Huang (ophthalmologist), David Huang, Eric A. Swanson *2024 Joel Habener, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Svetlana Mojsov

References

External links

- Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Lasker-DeBakey Award Biomedical awards, Laskar-DeBakey Lasker Award

List of past winners

See also

References

External links