Awards & Winners

1986 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1986 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1986 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Rita Levi-Montalcini

(For her original concept that cell growth is governed by soluble substances, and for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Stanley Cohen

(For discovering and biochemically defining epidermal growth factor (EGF), which illuminated the dynamics of cell growth.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Ma Haide

(For his legendary contributions to the control and eradication of venereal diseases and leprosy in China, greatly improving the health of a billion people.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Max Essex

(For his pioneering studies of the feline leukemia retrovirus, and for his consistently original and widely influential studies of retroviruses in humans and other species, culminating in many of the most crucial discoveries concerning AIDS.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Robert Gallo

(For determining that the retrovirus now known as HIV-1 is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Luc Montagnier

(For detecting a retrovirus later identified as the cause of AIDS.)