Awards & Winners

2013 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 2013 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 2013 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Richard Scheller, Thomas C. Südhof

(For discoveries concerning the molecular machinery and regulatory mechanism that underlie the rapid release of neurotransmitters.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Graeme Clark, Ingeborg Hochmair, Blake S. Wilson

(For the development of the modern cochlear implant \u2014 a device that bestows hearing to individuals with profound deafness.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

Bill Gates, Melinda Gates

(For leading a historic transformation in the way we view the globe's most pressing health concerns and improving the lives of millions of the world's most vulnerable.)
Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award