Lasker Award

official
Organizer
Lasker Foundation
Why it counts
Awarded annually since 1945 by the Lasker Foundation, a New York City-based non-profit, recognizing major contributions to medical science
Held
annual, announced in September; ceremony later in the fall in New York City

Reigning winners

Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · 2023

YearAlbert Lasker Basic Medical Research AwardLasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
2023 Demis Hassabis
John Michael Jumper
2022 Erkki Ruoslahti
Richard Hynes
Timothy A. Springer
2019 Jacques Miller
Max Dale Cooper
2017 Michael N. Hall
2016 Gregg L. Semenza
Peter J. Ratcliffe
William G. Kaelin
2015 Evelyn M. Witkin
Stephen Elledge
2014 Kazutoshi Mori
Peter Walter
2013 Richard Scheller
Thomas C. Südhof
2012 James Spudich
Michael Sheetz
Ronald Vale
2011 Arthur L. Horwich
Franz-Ulrich Hartl
2010 Douglas L. Coleman
Jeffrey M. Friedman
2009 John Gurdon
Shinya Yamanaka
2008 David Baulcombe
Gary Ruvkun
Victor Ambros
2007 Ralph Steinman
2006 Carol Greider
Elizabeth Blackburn
Jack Szostak
2005 Ernest McCulloch
James Till
2004 Elwood V. Jensen
Pierre Chambon
Ronald M. Evans
2003 Robert G. Roeder
2002 James Rothman
Randy Schekman
2001 Mario Capecchi
Martin Evans
Oliver Smithies
2000 Aaron Ciechanover
Alexander Varshavsky
Avram Hershko
1999 Bertil Hille
Clay Armstrong
Roderick MacKinnon
1998 Lee Hartwell
Paul Nurse
Yoshio Masui
1997 Mark Ptashne
1996 Ferid Murad
Robert F. Furchgott
1994 Stanley B. Prusiner
1993 Günter Blobel
1991 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Edward B. Lewis
1989 Alfred G. Gilman
Edwin G. Krebs
Michael Berridge
Yasutomi Nishizuka
1988 Phillip Sharp
Thomas Cech
1987 Leroy Hood
Philip Leder
Susumu Tonegawa
1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini
Stanley Cohen
1984 César Milstein
Georges J. F. Köhler
Michael Potter
1982 Harold E. Varmus
Hidesaburō Hanafusa
J. Michael Bishop
Raymond L. Erikson
Robert Gallo
1981 Barbara McClintock
1979 Frederick Sanger
Roger Sperry
Walter Gilbert
1978 Hans Kosterlitz
John P. Hughes
Solomon H. Snyder
1977 Bengt I. Samuelsson
John Vane
Sune Bergström
1975 Andrew Schally
Frank J. Dixon
Henry Kunkel
Roger Guillemin
1974 Howard E. Skipper
Howard Temin
Ludwik Gross
Sol Spiegelman
1971 Charles Yanofsky
Seymour Benzer
Sydney Brenner
1967 Bernard Brodie
1965 Robert W. Holley
1964 Harry Rubin
Renato Dulbecco
1963 Lyman C. Craig
1959 Albert Coons
Jules Freund
1957 Isaac Starr
1956 Francis O. Schmitt
Karl Meyer
1955 Carl John Wiggers
Karl Paul Link
1953 George Wald
Hans Krebs
Michael Heidelberger
1952 Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1951 Karl Friedrich Meyer
1950 George Wells Beadle
1948 René Dubos
Selman Abraham Waksman
Vincent du Vigneaud
1947 Homer Smith
Oswald Avery