Clinical medicine award: Edwin Southern of Oxford University and Alec J. Jeffreys of Leicester University in the United Kingdom won the clinical medicine award for their contributions to Southern blotting and DNA fingerprinting respectively;
Public Service Award: nancy brinker of Susan G. Coleman Breast Cancer Foundation was founded, which helped many breast cancer patients and funded many cancer research. Basic medicine award: Dr. elizabeth black Bonn, University of California, San Francisco; Carol greider of Johns Hopkins Medical College in Baltimore; Jack Zostak of Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Clinical medical research award: Dr. Blackburn, an Australian-born stem cell researcher, and aaron beck, an honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Lasker Prize for Special Achievement in Medicine: Joseph Gail, Department of Embryology, Carnegie College, Baltimore. Award for basic medicine: Dr Alain Carpentier, surgeon of Georges Pompidou Medical College, and Dr Albert Stell, surgeon of Providence Health System in Portland, USA.
Clinical medical research award: Dr. Ralph Stallman, Rockefeller University, USA.
Lasker Service Award: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Award for basic medicine: Victor Ambros from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Gary Ruvkun from Massachusetts General Hospital and David Baulcombe from the University of British Columbia.
Special contribution award of medical science: Stanley Falkow established a set of criteria to distinguish genes that cause host diseases by pathogenic microorganisms, namely virulence factors. Basic Medicine Award: john gurdon of Cambridge University in England and shinya yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan;
Clinical medical research awards: Brian Druker of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Nicholas Lydon of Granite Biopharmaceutical Consulting Company in San Diego (who used to work for Novartis), and Charles Sawyers of new york Memorial Si Long-Kettering Cancer Research Center. Prize in Basic Medicine: Arthur Horwich from Yale University School of Medicine and Franz-ulrich hartle from Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Award for clinical medical research: Tu Youyou, a scientist from China. The reason for winning the prize is "because artemisinin, a drug used to treat malaria, has saved millions of lives around the world, especially in developing countries." Became the first mainland scientist in China to win an award. 20 13 September, the lasker foundation of the United States announced the winners of the 20 13 Albert Lasker prize. 20 13 * *, five scientists won the prize.
Prize in basic medicine: Richard H. Scheler of Genentech and Thomas C. Stafford of Stanford University School of Medicine. The reason for winning the prize is "discovering the molecular machines and regulation mechanism behind the rapid release of neurotransmitters".
Clinical medicine awards: Graeme M. Clark, honorary professor of Melbourne University, Australia; Ingeborg Hochmair of MED-EL Cochlear Company in Innsbruck, Austria; and Blake S. Wilson of Duke University, USA. The reason for winning the prize is "the development of modern cochlear implant-this device has gained hearing for severely deaf people".
Public Service Award: Bill and Mrs Gates. The reason for winning the prize is "historically changing the way we look at global health issues and improving the lives of millions of poor people in the world". On September 8th, 20 14, five researchers who studied the repair of misfolded protein cell system, deep brain stimulation of Parkinson's disease and breast cancer gene won this year's Lasker Biomedical Research Award.
Basic Medical Research Award: Kazutoshi Mori, a 56-year-old researcher at Kyoto University, and Peter Walter, a 59-year-old researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, for their research on unfolded protein response.
Clinical Research Award: Arim Louis Benabid, 72, from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and Mahlon Delong, 76, from Emory University, USA, won the Lasker Prize. Their research also began in the 1980s. In animal and human experiments, they show that surgically implanting a device into the brain can stimulate the subthalamic nucleus and slow down the trembling and other symptoms of patients with Parkinson's disease. In 2002, American regulators approved this treatment for Parkinson's disease.
Special Achievement Award: Mary-Claire King, a 68-year-old researcher at the University of Washington, USA, won Lasker. King discovered BRCA 1 breast cancer risk gene in 1990, and developed a DNA analysis method to identify a family member. This method was first used to help parents find 1976 ~ 1983 children lost during the dictatorship of Argentine military regime. Since then, this method has been used to identify the victims of natural disasters and "9. 1 1" terrorist attacks. Basic medical research award
Stephen J. Elledge of Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School and Evelyn M. Witkin of Rutgers University jointly won the 20 15 Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research. They won the award for discovering the phenomenon of DNA damage reaction.
Clinical medical research award
James Alison of the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center won the prize for discovering a monoclonal therapy that stimulates the immune system to fight cancer.
Public service award
20 15 Lasker-Pemberg * * Service Award was awarded to MSF. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year once spread rapidly and intensified. At the critical moment when the national medical system was facing collapse, MSF played a leading role and turned the corner.