Awards & Winners

1989 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1989 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1989 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Michael Berridge

(For his masterful research revealing how IP3 governs the intracellular level of calcium and orchestrates the major activities of the cell.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Alfred G. Gilman

(For his pioneering studies of signal transduction and for his discovery that G-proteins carry signals that regulate vital processes within cells.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Edwin G. Krebs

(For his seminal finding that phosphorylation activates major enzymes in cells, and for perceiving the profound importance of protein kinase enzymes.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Yasutomi Nishizuka

(For his profound contributions to the understanding of signal transduction in cells, and for his discovery that carcinogens trigger cell growth by activating protein kinase C.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Étienne-Émile Baulieu

(For his contributions to the broad field of steroid hormone biosynthesis, metabolism, and receptors, and for developing RU 486, the first safe, effective contragestive medication.)