Awards & Winners

Alain Carpentier

Date of Birth 11-August-1933
Place of Birth Toulouse
(Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France, Urban community of Greater Toulouse)
Nationality France
Profession Surgeon, Professor
Alain Frédéric Carpentier M.D. Ph.D. is a French surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the father of modern mitral valve repair. He is the recipient of the 2007 Lasker Prize.

Awards by Alain Carpentier

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alain Carpentier.

2007


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For the development of prosthetic mitral and aortic valves, which have prolonged and enhanced the lives of millions of people with heart disease)