Awards & Winners

2011 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 2011 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 2011 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Arthur L. Horwich

(For discoveries concerning the cell's protein-folding machinery, exemplified by cage-like structures that convert newly made proteins into their biologically active forms.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Tu Youyou

(For the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

(For serving since its inception as a model research hospital\u2014providing innovative therapy and high-quality patient care, treating rare and severe diseases, and producing outstanding physician-scientists whose collective work has set a standard of excellence in biomedical research.)
Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award