The Lasker Awards are among the most prestigious awards in the biomedical field. The awards are sometimes referred to as the “American Nobels,” as 85 previous recipients have gone on to achieve the Nobel Prize, according to The New York Times.
Here are the 2017 award recipients:
- Michael Hall, PhD, of the Biozentrum University in Basel, Switzerland, received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for “discoveries concerning the nutrient-activated [target of rapamycin] proteins and their central role in the metabolic control of cell growth.”
- Douglas Lowy, MD, and John Schiller, PhD, of the Bethesda, Md.-based National Cancer Insitute, earned the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for “technological advances that enabled development of HPV vaccines for prevention of cervical cancer and other tumors caused by human papillomaviruses.”
- Planned Parenthood was awarded the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for “providing essential health services and reproductive care to millions of women for more than a century.”
To learn more about the awards, click here.
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