Awards & Winners

1972 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1972 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1972 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Min Chiu Li, Roy Hertz

(For their outstanding contribution to the successful chemotherapeutic treatment of gestational choriocarcinoma.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Denis Parsons Burkitt

(For his outstanding contribution in first identifying Burkitt's tumor.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Joseph H. Burchenal

(For his outstanding contribution in recognizing the importance of Burkitt's tumor as a model.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

V. Anomah Ngu

(For his outstanding contribution to the expansion of the successful chemotherapeutic treatment of Burkitt's tumor.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

John L. Ziegler

(For his outstanding contribution in increasing the cure rate of Burkitt's tumor by chemotherapy.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Edmund Klein

(For his outstanding contribution in the treatment of premalignant and malignant cancers of the skin.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Emil Frei

(For his outstanding contribution in the application of the concept of combination chemotherapy to lymphoma and acute adult leukemia.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Emil J. Freireich

(For his outstanding contributions in combination chemotherapy, and in supportive care of patients receiving combination chemotherapy for acute leukemia.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

James F. Holland, Donald Pinkel

(For their outstanding contribution to the concept and application of combination therapy in the treatment of acute leukemia in children.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Paul P. Carbone

(For his outstanding contribution to the concept of combination therapy in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Vincent T. DeVita

(For his outstanding contribution to the concept of combination therapy in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease. )
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Eugene J. Van Scott

(For his outstanding contribution to the concept of topical chemotherapy in the treatment of mycosis fungoides. )
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Isaac Djerassi

(For his outstanding contribution in the supportive care, by platelet transfusion, of patients receiving intensive chemotherapy.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Gordon Zubrod

(Special Award: For his leadership in expanding the frontiers of cancer chemotherapy.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service