Lasker Award

Lasker Award
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.org

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.