Awards & Winners

1976 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1976 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1976 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

James Black

(For his design of propranolol, a drug which is a pharmacological milestone in the treatment of life-threatening cardiac diseases, angina, and severe high blood pressure.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

(For the discovery and development of the technique of radioimmunoassay.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

World Health Organization

(For its historic achievement in the practical eradication of smallpox from the Earth.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Raymond P. Ahlquist

(For his concept of alpha and beta receptors, which opened the door to the development of propranolol, a milestone drug in the treatment of heart diseases and severe high blood pressure.)