Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award [SEP] conferred by
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of four annual awards presented by the Lasker Foundation. The Lasker-DeBakey award is given to honor outstanding work for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. This award was renamed in 2008 in honor of Michael E. DeBakey. It was previously known as the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
List of past winners.
- 1946 John Friend Mahoney, Karl Landsteiner (posthumously), Alexander
32 in the last two decades. Claire Pomeroy is the current President of the Foundation.
The four main awards are:
- Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
- Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
- Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award (Renamed in 2011 from Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award. Renamed in 2000 from Albert Lasker Public Service Award.)
- Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science (1994–)
The awards carry an honorarium of $250,000 for each category.