Awards & Winners

1956 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1956 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1956 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Jonas Salk

(For developing a safe and effective vaccine against poliomyelitis.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Karl Friedrich Meyer, Francis O. Schmitt

(Joint award for pioneering studies of the biochemical components of connective tissues, contributing to new understanding of arthritis and rheumatic diseases.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

William P. Shepard

(For pioneering work as an industrial health physician, educator and government advisor.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Louis N. Katz

(For his contribution to cardiovascular research and his advancement of the thesis that experimental atherosclerosis is basically a metabolic disease that is preventable and reversible. )
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

V. Everett Kinsey

(For his outstanding work as coordinator of the National Cooperative Study of Retrolental Fibroplasia.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Arnall Patz

(For his original, well-controlled studies in the cause and prevention of retrolental fibroplasia.)