Awards & Winners

Robert Wallace Wilkins

Date of Birth 1906
Place of Birth United States of America
(Americas, DVD Region 1, United States, with Territories, Lacks Family Cemetery )
Nationality United States of America
Robert Wallace Wilkins was an American medical investigator and educator, made many contributions in the research of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. He was the president of the American Heart Association in 1957 and received its Gold Heart Award in 1962. He has been credited with introducing the antipsychotic and antihypertensive drug reserpine to the United States in 1950.

Awards by Robert Wallace Wilkins

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1958


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For distinguished contributions to the control of heart and blood vessel diseases through outstanding investigations into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.)