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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Annual science award
Annual science award
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
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| Year | Recipient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Dirk Görlich | |
| Steven L. McKnight | ||
| 2024 | Zhijian Chen | |
| 2023 | Demis Hassabis | |
| John M. Jumper | ||
| 2022 | Richard O. Hynes | |
| Erkki Ruoslahti | ||
| Timothy A. Springer | ||
| 2021 | Karl Deisseroth | |
| Peter Hegemann | ||
| Dieter Oesterhelt | ||
| 2020 | not awarded | |
| 2019 | Max Dale Cooper | |
| Jacques Miller | ||
| 2018 | C. David Allis | |
| Michael Grunstein | ||
| 2017 | Michael N. Hall | |
| 2016 | William Kaelin Jr. | |
| Peter J. Ratcliffe | ||
| Gregg L. Semenza | ||
| 2015 | Stephen J. Elledge | |
| Evelyn M. Witkin | ||
| 2014 | Kazutoshi Mori | |
| Peter Walter | ||
| 2013 | Richard H. Scheller | |
| Thomas C. Südhof | ||
| 2012 | Michael Sheetz | |
| James Spudich | ||
| Ronald Vale | ||
| 2011 | Franz-Ulrich Hartl | |
| Arthur L. Horwich | ||
| 2010 | Douglas L. Coleman | |
| Jeffrey M. Friedman | ||
| 2009 | John Gurdon | |
| Shinya Yamanaka | ||
| 2008 | Victor R. Ambros | |
| David C. Baulcombe | ||
| Gary B. Ruvkun | ||
| 2007 | Ralph M. Steinman | |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Blackburn | |
| Carol W. Greider | ||
| Jack Szostak | ||
| 2005 | Ernest McCulloch | |
| James Till | ||
| 2004 | Pierre Chambon | |
| Ronald M. Evans | ||
| Elwood V. Jensen | ||
| 2003 | Robert G. Roeder | |
| 2002 | James E. Rothman | |
| Randy W. Schekman | ||
| 2001 | Mario Capecchi | |
| Martin Evans | ||
| Oliver Smithies | ||
| 2000 | Aaron Ciechanover | |
| Avram Hershko | ||
| Alexander Varshavsky |
| Year | Recipient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Clay Armstrong | |
| Bertil Hille | ||
| Roderick MacKinnon | ||
| 1998 | Leland H. Hartwell | |
| Yoshio Masui | ||
| Paul Nurse | ||
| 1997 | Mark S. Ptashne | |
| 1996 | Robert F. Furchgott | |
| Ferid Murad | ||
| 1995 | Peter C. Doherty | |
| Jack L. Strominger | ||
| Emil R. Unanue | ||
| Don C. Wiley | ||
| Rolf M. Zinkernagel | ||
| 1994 | Stanley B. Prusiner | |
| 1993 | Günter Blobel | |
| 1992 | not awarded | |
| 1991 | Edward B. Lewis | |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | ||
| 1990 | not awarded | |
| 1989 | Michael J. Berridge | |
| Alfred G. Gilman | ||
| Edwin G. Krebs | ||
| Yasutomi Nishizuka | ||
| 1988 | Thomas R. Cech | |
| Phillip A. Sharp | ||
| 1987 | Leroy Hood | |
| Philip Leder | ||
| Susumu Tonegawa | ||
| 1986 | Rita Levi-Montalcini | |
| Stanley Cohen | ||
| 1985 | Michael S. Brown | |
| Joseph L. Goldstein | ||
| 1984 | Michael Potter | |
| Georges J. F. Köhler | ||
| César Milstein | ||
| 1983 | Eric R. Kandel | |
| Vernon B. Mountcastle | ||
| 1982 | J. Michael Bishop | |
| Raymond L. Erikson | ||
| Hidesaburo Hanafusa | ||
| Harold E. Varmus | ||
| Robert C. Gallo | ||
| 1981 | Barbara McClintock | |
| 1980 | Paul Berg | |
| Herbert W. Boyer | ||
| Stanley N. Cohen | ||
| A. Dale Kaiser |
| 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 |
Notes
References
- Hofschneider, Mark. "About the Awards".
- [https://laskerfoundation.org/winners/structures-and-functions-of-low-complexity-domains/ Laureates 2025]
- [https://laskerfoundation.org Lasker Basic Research Award 2024]
- [https://laskerfoundation.org/winners/alphafold-a-technology-for-predicting-protein-structures/ Laureates 2023]
- [https://laskerfoundation.org/winners/integrins-mediators-of-cell-matrix-cell-adhesion/ Laureates 2022]
- Hofschneider, Mark. "Light-sensitive microbial proteins and optogenetics".
- Hofschneider, Mark. "Awards".
- "The Lasker Foundation – 2013 Basic Medical Research Award".
- (14 September 2009). "Professor John Gurdon honoured with prestigious American medical award". University of Cambridge.
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