Lasker Award

The Lasker Award is a medical award given annually to the living person considered to have made the greatest contribution to medical science, or who has demonstrated public service on behalf of medicine. It was created in 1945 by Albert Lasker and Mary Woodard Lasker and is administered by the Lasker Foundation.

Eighty-six Lasker laureates have subsequently received the Nobel Prize, including 32 in the last two decades. Claire Pomeroy is the current president of the Lasker Foundation.