Awards & Winners

1948 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1948 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1948 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Vincent du Vigneaud

(For his basic studies of transmethylation as essential to animal nutrition; for his contributions to the structure and synthesis of biotin and penicillin.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Selman Waksman, René Dubos

(Joint award for their achievement in studies of the antibiotic properties of soil bacteria; Dr. Waksman was also cited for his discovery of streptomycin.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Rolla Dyer

(For his scientific accomplishments in the field of microbiological research and for his distinguished service as Director of the National Institutes of Health during the war and post-war years.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Martha May Eliot

(For administrative achievement in the organization and operation of the Emergency Maternal and Infant Care Program.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award