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Albert Lasker Award

The Albert Lasker Award celebrates scientists, physicians, and public servants whose accomplishments have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of many crippling and fatal diseases. Since 1946, when the first Lasker Awards were presented, 26 recipients have been associated with The Rockefeller University.

Current Faculty and Emeriti

Svetlana Mojsov
2024 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research
Mojsov and her colleagues were recognized for the discovery and development of GLP-1-based drugs that have revolutionized the treatment of obesity.
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Charles M. Rice
2016 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research
Rice and his colleagues were recognized for developing a system to study the replication of the virus that causes hepatitis C and using it to revolutionize the treatment of this chronic disease.
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Jeffrey M. Friedman
2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Friedman's findings have helped demonstrate that obesity can be a result of metabolic and hormonal disruptions rather than lack of will power and have opened obesity research to molecular exploration.
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Robert G. Roeder
2003 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Roeder opened up the study of gene expression which triggered an explosion in the field and generated enormous insight into the mechanisms by which multicellular organisms decode the genome.
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James E. Darnell Jr.
2002 Albert Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science
He led breakthroughs in our understanding of gene regulation and has fostered the careers of more than 125 scientists, many of whom have gone on to make creative contributions through their own work.
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Roderick MacKinnon
1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
MacKinnon’s work opened up entirely new avenues of research in biochemistry and biology and offered fresh insight into a variety of disorders that are caused by abnormalities in ion channel function.
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Paul Nurse
1998 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
The demonstration of cell cycle universality provided an easier model system by which to study cancer eventually leading to new diagnostic techniques.
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About the Albert Lasker Award

Founded in 1945, the Albert Lasker Award recognizes the contributions of scientists, physicians, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human disease.

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Past Faculty

2021
David Baltimore
2018
C. David Allis
2007
Ralph M. Steinman
1994
Maclyn McCarty
1993
Gunter Blobel
1988
Vincent P. Dole
1982
Hidesaburo Hanafusa
1978
Emil C. Gotschlich
1975
Henry G. Kunkel
1969
R. Bruce Merrifield
1966
George E. Palade
1963
Lyman C. Craig
1958
Peyton Rous
1957
Richard E. Shope
1951
Florence R. Sabin
1948
René Dubos
1947
Oswald T. Avery
1946
Philip Levine
1946
Karl Landsteiner