Awards & Winners

1978 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1978 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1978 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Hans Kosterlitz

(For his pioneering work in identifying the relation of the opiate receptors to the naturally occurring enkephalins. )
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Solomon H. Snyder

(For his demonstration of the nature and distribution of the opiate receptors in the brain, and a whole series of following studies that have illuminated the importance of this system in human physiology.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

John Hughes

(For his discovery and isolation of the two naturally occurring enkephalins and for identifying their relation to the larger beta-lipotropin molecule that exists in the human pituitary gland.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Elliot Richardson

(For his crucial decision in 1972, as Secretary of HEW, to inaugurate a national education program for the control of high blood pressure, a major contributing cause of heart disease and stroke.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Theodore Cooper

(For implementing in 1972 the National High Blood Pressure Education Program, which has contributed significantly to the reduction in deaths from stroke, kidney and heart diseases.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Michael Heidelberger

(For his elegant studies in immunochemistry, which laid the groundwork for the development of capsular purified polysaccharide vaccines for the prevention of pneumonia and meningitis.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Robert Austrian

(For his perseverance in the development and clear demonstration of the efficacy of a purified vaccine of capsular polysaccharides in the prevention of pneumococcal diseases.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Emil C. Gotschlich

(For his creative leadership in developing, and then demonstrating the effectiveness of a purified capsular polysaccharide vaccine in preventing meningococcal diseases.)