Awards & Winners

1951 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1951 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1951 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Karl Friedrich Meyer

(For bacteriological research in parasitology. )
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Florence R. Sabin

(For outstanding accomplishments in public health administration, as Chairman of the Health Committee of the Governor of Colorado's Post-War Planning Committee.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Catherine Macfarlane, Elise L'Esperance

(Joint award for their pioneer work in developing cancer detection clinics for the discovery of early cancer or precancerous lesions in presumably healthy people. )
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

William Gordon Lennox, Frederic A. Gibbs

(Joint award for their research in epilepsy. )