Awards & Winners

1955 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1955 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1955 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Karl Paul Link

(For fundamental contributions to our understanding of the mechanism of blood clotting and for the development of methods for the improved treatment of thromboembolic conditions.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Carl J. Wiggers

(For his exceptional contributions to the understanding of cardiovascular physiology.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Robert Defries

(For distinguished leadership in the development of preventive medicine and public health throughout Canada. )
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

William C. Menninger, Karl Menninger

(For a sustained and highly productive attack against mental diseases, leading to better hospitals, better trained staffs and greatly improved care of the mentally ill.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Lucile Leone, Pearl McIver, Margaret Arnstein

(For distinguished contributions to the advancement and well-being of the nation through their leadership in public health nursing.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Morley Cohen, Herbert Warden, Richard Varco, C. Walton Lillehei

(Joint award for advances in cardiac surgery, making possible more direct and safer approaches to the heart. )
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Edward H. Robitzek, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoffmann-La Roche, Irving Selikoff, Carl Muschenheim, Walsh McDermott

(Joint award for establishing the great efficacy of isoniazid drugs in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis and generalized miliary tuberculosis.)