Awards & Winners

Vincent Dole

Date of Birth 18-May-1913
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Dr. Vincent Dole
Profession Physician
Vincent Dole was an American doctor, who, along with his wife Dr Marie Nyswander, pioneered the practice of substituting the synthetic narcotic agonist methadone to treat heroin addiction. Drs. Dole & Nyswander, in establishing Methadone maintenance treatment, revolutionized addiction medicine which for a century had been based on the conventional and widely held view that narcotic addiction was the result of an intractable moral defect. His work resulted in the partial re-legalization of opioid maintenance in the United States. For this contribution he was a recipient of the prestigious Lasker Award for Medicine, sometimes referred to as "America's Nobel Prize".

Awards by Vincent Dole

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1988


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For postulating the physiological basis of narcotic addiction and for developing methadone treatment for heroin addiction.)

1970


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his pioneer contributions to our understanding of the metabolism of free fatty acid and adipose tissue, and more recently for the significant work he has done in establishing a valuable method of treating narcotic addiction with methadone.)