Awards & Winners

1949 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1949 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1949 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Edward Calvin Kendall, Philip Showalter Hench

(Joint award for their chemical physiological and clinical studies of adrenal hormones which culminated in the development of the use of cortisone in rheumatic disease therapy.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

André Frédéric Cournand

(For outstanding contributions to the physiology of the circulation in man and the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

L.R. Christensen, William S. Tillett

(Joint award for the discovery and purification of the enzymes streptokinase and streptodornase.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Marion W. Sheahan

(For distinguished leadership in the fields of nursing and public health.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Max Theiler

(For distinguished experimental work leading directly to the production of two effective vaccines against yellow fever. )