Lasker Award
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1945 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation.
Laureates & Recipients
27 in registryAaron Beck
Top 0.01% — TitanPsychiatry
Aaron Beck is a psychiatry specialist at University of Pennsylvania. Based in Philadelphia....
C. Walton Lillehei
Top 0.01% — TitanCardiovascular Surgery
C. Walton Lillehei was a cardiovascular surgery specialist at the University of Minnesota. Known as the 'Father of Open ...
Charles Brenton Huggins
Top 0.01% — TitanUrology
Charles Brenton Huggins is a urology specialist at University of Chicago. Based in Chicago....
Denis Burkitt
Top 1% — EliteSurgery
Denis Burkitt was a surgery and oncology specialist with an H-index of 50. Described Burkitt lymphoma, the first cancer ...
Eric Kandel
Top 0.01% — TitanNeuroscience
Eric Kandel is a neuroscience specialist with an H-index of 180 at Columbia University. Nobel Prize 2000 for discoveries...
Ferid Murad
Top 0.01% — TitanPharmacology
Ferid Murad was a pharmacology specialist with an H-index of 110. Nobel Prize 1998 for discovering nitric oxide signalin...
Gregg Semenza
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Gregg Semenza is a genetics specialist at Johns Hopkins University. Based in Baltimore....
Gunter Blobel
Top 0.01% — TitanCell Biology
Gunter Blobel is a cell biology specialist at Rockefeller University. Based in New York....
H. Robert Horvitz
Top 0.01% — TitanBiology
H. Robert Horvitz is a biology specialist at MIT. Based in Cambridge....
Helen Brooke Taussig
Top 1% — ElitePediatric Cardiology
Helen Brooke Taussig was the founder of pediatric cardiology who conceptualized the Blalock-Taussig shunt for blue baby ...
James Rothman
Top 0.01% — TitanCell Biology
James Rothman is a cell biology specialist at Yale University. Based in United States....
Jonas Salk
Top 0.01% — TitanVirology
Jonas Salk was a virology and vaccine development specialist with an H-index of 45 at the University of Pittsburgh and t...
Leland Hartwell
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Leland Hartwell is a genetics specialist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Based in Seattle....
Mary-Claire King
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Mary-Claire King is a genetics specialist at University of Washington. Based in Seattle....
Maurice Hilleman
Top 0.01% — TitanVirology
Maurice Hilleman is a virology specialist at Merck Research Laboratories. Based in Philadelphia....
Michael DeBakey
Top 0.01% — TitanCardiovascular Surgery
Michael DeBakey was a cardiovascular surgery specialist with an H-index of 150 at Baylor College of Medicine. Pioneer of...
Michael Houghton
Top 0.01% — TitanVirology
Michael Houghton is a virology specialist with an H-index of 105 at the University of Alberta. Nobel Prize 2020 for disc...
Paul Lauterbur
Top 0.01% — TitanRadiology
Paul Lauterbur is a radiology specialist at University of Illinois. Based in Urbana....
Randy Schekman
Top 0.01% — TitanCell Biology
Randy Schekman is a cell biology specialist at University of California, Berkeley. Based in United States....
Robert Furchgott
Top 0.01% — TitanPharmacology
Robert Furchgott is a pharmacology specialist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Based in New York....
Rosalyn Yalow
Top 0.01% — TitanMedical Physics
Rosalyn Yalow is a medical physics specialist at Bronx VA Medical Center. Based in New York....
Susumu Tonegawa
Top 0.01% — TitanImmunology
Susumu Tonegawa is an immunology and neuroscience specialist with an H-index of 130 at MIT. Nobel Prize 1987 for discove...
Thomas Sudhof
Top 0.01% — TitanNeuroscience
Thomas Sudhof is a neuroscience specialist at Stanford University. Based in Germany....
Victor McKusick
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Victor McKusick is a genetics specialist at Johns Hopkins University. Based in Baltimore....
Willem Kolff
Top 0.01% — TitanNephrology
Willem Kolff was a nephrology specialist who invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine in 1943. Father of artifici...
William Kaelin
Top 0.01% — TitanOncology
William Kaelin is a oncology specialist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Based in Boston....
Youyou Tu
Top 1% — ElitePharmacology
Youyou Tu is a pharmacology specialist at China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Based in Beijing....
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