Awards & Winners

2005 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 2005 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 2005 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Ernest McCulloch, James Till

(Ernest McCulloch and James Till for ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell \u2014 the blood-forming stem cell \u2014 which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Nancy Brinker

(For creating one of the world's great foundations devoted to curing breast cancer and for dramatically increasing public awareness about this devastating disease.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Alec Jeffreys, Edwin Southern

(For development of two powerful technologies\u2014Southern hybridization and DNA fingerprinting\u2014that together revolutionized human genetics and forensic diagnostics.)
Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award