| Lasker Award | |
|---|---|
.jpg) President Lyndon Johnson accepting the special Albert Lasker Award for Leadership in Health | |
| Awarded for | Major contributions to medical science |
| Sponsored by | Lasker Foundation |
| Date | 1945 |
| Reward(s) | $250,000 |
| Highlights | |
| Basic (2019) | Max Dale Cooper Jacques Miller |
| Clinical (2019) | H. Michael Shepard Dennis J. Slamon Axel Ullrich |
| Public Service (2019) | GAVI |
| Website | laskerfoundation |
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 service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation. The Lasker is sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels".
The Lasker Awards have gained a reputation for identifying future winners of the Nobel Prize. Eighty-six Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 32 in the last two decades.[1][2] Claire Pomeroy is the current president of the Lasker Foundation.
- ^ "The Lasker Awards Overview". Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ^ The Lasker Foundation – 2008 Special Achievement Award