Awards & Winners

1957 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1957 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1957 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Isaac Starr

(For fundamental contributions to knowledge of the heart and the circulation, and for his development of the first practical ballistocardiograph.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Frank G. Boudreau

(For his work with the Milbank Memorial Fund and for promoting better mental health, good nutrition and improved housing.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

C.J. Van Slyke

(For his unique contributions in laying the foundation for a national program of medical research and training. )
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Reginald M. Atwater

(For guiding the American Public Health Association to a position of leadership as the largest organization of its kind in the western world. )
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Richard Shope

(For outstanding contributions to the better understanding of infectious diseases in animals and man and his discovery of new microbiological principles of far-reaching importance.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Nathan S. Kline

(For his demonstrations of the value of Rauwolfia derivatives, especially reserpine, in the treatment of mental and nervous disorders.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Robert Noce

(For his studies of reserpine and its uses among the mentally ill and among mental defectives.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Henri Laborit

(For his extensive studies of surgical shock and post-operative illness which resulted in the first application of chlorpromazine as a therapeutic agent.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Pierre Deniker

(For his introduction of chlorpromazine into psychiatry, and for his demonstration that a medication can influence the clinical course of the major psychoses.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Heinz Lehmann

(For his demonstrations of the clinical uses of chlorpromazine in the treatment of mental disorders.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Rustom Jal Vakil

(For his brilliant and systematic studies on Rauwolfia in hypertension.)