Awards & Winners

1980 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1980 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1980 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Paul Berg

(For his key, historic achievements which made recombinant DNA a brilliant reality, and inaugurated a new age of biomedical promise.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Herbert Boyer

(For his brilliant contributions to recombinant DNA methodology, particularly in enzymology, plasmids, and in application of synthetic DNA.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Stanley Cohen

(For his splendid contributions to recombinant DNA methodology, and for accomplishing the first transplantation of genes between cells.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

A. Dale Kaiser

(For his crucial role in creating recombinant DNA methodology through his pathbreaking studies of cohesive single-stranded DNA.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Cyril Clarke

(For bringing his lively interest in heredity to bear on the genetics of the Rh antigen, thereby initiating one of the first systematic investigations in medical genetics, and for conceiving and directing epidemiological studies, basic research, and clinical investigations of Rh disease of the newborn.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Ronald Finn

(For his dedicated and painstaking studies revealing how the unborn child is protected from the immune system of the mother, and for documenting the sequence of events leading to Rh disease in the child.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Vincent J. Freda

(For his unrelenting drive to find a means of preventing hemolytic disease of the newborn, and for his dedicated and persistent clinical research leading to the development of the anti-Rh vaccine.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

John G. Gorman

(For his pivotal role in the development of the anti-Rh vaccine and for the scientific creativity which led him to apply to Rh disease the principle of antibody-mediated immune suppression.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

William Pollack

(For his indispensable efforts in the development of the anti-Rh vaccine, and for his immunological studies uncovering the mechanisms of Rh-incompatibility.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service