Awards & Winners

1977 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1977 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1977 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Sune Bergström

(For his classic achievements in isolating prostaglandins, and elucidating the chemical structures of those types of prostaglandins designated as E and F.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Bengt I. Samuelsson

(For his exceptional accomplishments in elucidating the mechanism of the biosynthesis of prostaglandins, analyzing their metabolism, and developing new methods for their measurement.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

John Vane

(For his discovery of prostacyclin, whose major action is to prevent the formation of the kind of blood clots that may lead to heart attack and stroke.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Inge G. Edler

(For pioneering the clinical application of ultrasound in the medical diagnosis of abnormalities of the heart\u2014probably the most important non-invasive tool for cardiac diagnosis since the electrocardiograph machine.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Carl Hellmuth Hertz

(For pioneering the development of ultrasound technology in medicine. )
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service