Lasker Medical Research Award

Furchgott RF (1996) The 1996 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards. The discovery of endothelium-derived relaxing factor and its importance in the identification of nitric oxide. JAMA 276 1186-8... 

He is a nonresident fellow of Salk Institute (1973 to present) and has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Sciences (1966) has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Pennsylvania State University (1972) has served as president of the American Society of Biological Chemists (1975) has received an honorary D.Sc. from Yale University and the University of Rochester (1978) and has been named a foreign member of the Japan Biochemical Society (1978). Other awards include the Eli Lilly Prize in Biochemistry (1959) California Scientist of the Year (1963) V.D. Mattia Award of the Roche Institute for Molecular Biology (1974) Sarasota Medical Award (1979) Gairdner Foundation Annual Award (1980) Albert Lasker Medical Research Award (1980) and the New York Academy of Sciences Award (1980). He served in the U.S. Navy (1944-46). 

Feldmann, M. and Maini, R.N., Lasker clinical medical research award. TNF dehned as a therapeutic target for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, Nature Med, 9, 1245, 2003. 

Rothman JE. 2002. Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. The machinery and principles of vesicle transport in the cell. Nat Med 8 1059-1062. 

MacKinnon, Roderick. (1956-). An American bom in Burlington, MA, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2003 for his pioneering work discovering channels in cell membranes, in particular for the structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels. He received a B.A. in biochemistry from Brandeis University and an M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine. MacKinnon is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the 1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. 

Israel, Ciechanover won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2004 for his pioneering work concerning the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. He was awarded an M.D. from Hadassah Medical School and a doctorate in medicine in 1982 from the Technion. In 2000 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. 

Jensen, V. Elwood. Received Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, 2004. 

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