Awards & Winners

1982 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1982 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1982 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

J. Michael Bishop

(For his elegant elucidation of the nature of oncogenes, and his contribution to the discovery that these genes are present in normal cells.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Raymond L. Erikson

(For his contributions to the first identification and functional characterization of the protein products of oncogenes, thus providing a clearer understanding of cell growth and regulation.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Hidesaburo Hanafusa

(For demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Harold E. Varmus

(For his creative and successful pursuit toward the identification of the cellular oncogenes and their control. )
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Robert Gallo

(For his pioneering studies that led to the discovery of the first human RNA tumor virus and its association with certain leukemias and lymphomas.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Roscoe Brady

(For his original and creative contributions to our understanding of a group of hereditary disorders called lipid storage diseases, and for the development of genetic counseling procedures and the initiation of possible treatment methods for these diseases.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Elizabeth F. Neufeld

(For his original and creative contributions to our understanding of a group of hereditary disorders called lipid storage diseases, and for the development of genetic counseling procedures and the initiation of possible treatment methods for these diseases.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service