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	Lasker Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science.
		They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodward Lasker (later an influential medical research activist).
		Highly prestigious, the awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lasker_Award (102 words)

	Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research is presented to Robert G. Edwards of the University of Cambridge (England) for the development of in vitro fertilization, a technological advance that has revolutionized the treatment of human infertility.
		In her work spanning five decades as the nation's foremost citizen-activist on behalf of medical research, the late Mary Lasker is widely recognized for her singular contribution to the growth of the National Institutes of Health, and her unflagging commitment to government funding of medical research in the hope of curing devastating diseases.
		Lasker Award recipients each receive a citation highlighting their achievements, and an inscribed statuette of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation's traditional symbol of humankind's victory over disability, disease and death.
	www.gatesfoundation.org /GlobalHealth/Announcements/Announce-417.htm (2339 words)

	Global Health Council - Global Health News from around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is shared by Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies and honors these three scientists for the development of a powerful technology for manipulating the mouse genome with exquisite precision, which allows the creation of animal models of human disease.
		The 2001 Award for Public Service is presented to William Foege for his courageous leadership in improving worldwide public health, and his prominent role in the eradication of smallpox, and the prevention of river blindness and guinea worm disease.
		Awards Ceremony Remarks by Joseph L. Goldstein, Chairman of the Lasker Awards Jury, and by Ira Herskowitz, member of the Lasker Jury, and Daniel E. Koshland, Chairman of the Public Service Award Selection Committee, 21 September 2001.
	www.globalhealth.org /news/printview-news.php3?id=1254 (246 words)

	Kety Wins Lasker Award For a Lifetime Of Medical Achievements
		Of 232 Laskers given since the awards were first presented in 1946, 61 recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.
		Lasker recipients receive an honorarium, a citation, and an inscribed statuette of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation’s symbol of humankind’s victory over disease and disability.
		The award for basic research was won by Clay Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Bertil Hille, University of Washington, Seattle; and Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute in New York for their work on elucidating how nerve impulses are generated.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1999/09.30/lasker.html (808 words)

	The Rockefeller University - Albert Lasker Award
		The Albert Lasker Award celebrates scientists, physicians, and public servants whose accomplishments have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of many crippling and fatal diseases.
		The Lasker Award has come to be known as the "American Nobel" and is the most coveted award in medical science.
		Since 1946, when the first Lasker Awards were presented, 19 recipients have been associated with The Rockefeller University.
	www.rockefeller.edu /graduate/faculty/awards/lasker.php (91 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LASKER, ALBERT DAVIS
		By 1904 Albert had become a partner of the firm, and in 1912 he bought out his partners and became the sole owner of the biggest ad agency in the business.
		Lasker was hired by the Republican party as a publicity agent and later supervised publicity and speech-writing for Warren G. Harding's presidential campaign; he was the first advertising man to be used by a president.
		In 1942 the Laskers set up the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, which funds medical research and each year recognizes significant work by medical scientists by bestowing the Albert Lasker Award.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/fla78.html (597 words)

	Dialysis developer wins big award, keeps inventing - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Lasker officials working on biographical materials wanted to keep the focus on how he developed kidney dialysis under the rigors of the Nazi occupation of Holland during World War II, the 91-year-old researcher said.
		Nearly six decades and many awards after he devised a dialysis machine using sausage casing to cleanse the blood of patients with kidney failure, Kolff is still inventing and still advocating for acceptance of artificial organs.
		Kolff shared the clinical research award with Belding H. Scribner, a University of Washington medical professor who developed a shunt, made of tubing attached to an artery and a vein, to which the dialysis machine could be repeatedly connected without constantly having to find new places to make incisions in blood vessels.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/business/s_96837.html (1142 words)

	BIOSI: Albert Lasker Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Cardiff School of Biosciences is delighted to announce that its director, Professor Martin Evans FRS, is a joint recipient of the Lasker Award, in recognition of his pioneering research on the modelling of human diseases in rodents, which is now set to have a major impact in research combating cancer and human genetic disorders.
		This prestigious award is known as America's "Nobel Prize" and the Laskers are coveted among biomedical researchers.
		The Lasker Foundation says "Although deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life from the terrorist attack, the Foundation held its annual Awards ceremony on September 21, 2001 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City at noon.
	www.cf.ac.uk /biosi/new/lasker.html (323 words)

	Lasker Award honors Rockefeller University biochemist for pioneering studies of gene activation
		Roeder is the 19th scientist associated with Rockefeller University to be honored with the Lasker Award, widely regarded not only as the "American Nobel" but also as a strong predictor of future Nobel Prize winners.
		Since the Lasker Awards were first presented in 1945, 47 percent of the Basic Lasker Winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize, while 37 percent of all Nobel Prize winners have received Lasker Awards.
		In addition to the Lasker award, Roeder received the 2002 ASBMB-Merck Award, which he shared with Stanford University's Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D., for their outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology, and the 2001 University of Pittsburgh Dickson Prize in Medicine.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-09/ru-lah090903.php (2179 words)

	British scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
		Two of Britain's leading biomedical researchers have received the prestigious 2003 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for their discovery of anti-TNF (tumour necrosis factor) treatment as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and other related diseases.
		The mission of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation is to enlarge public awareness, appreciation, and understanding of promising achievements in medical science in order to increase public support for research.
		The awards program serves to mark these milestones against disease and illness, and to create a venue for bringing to the attention of the nation's leaders and the general public the importance of medical science.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-09/icos-bsr091203.php (1259 words)

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		Nominations are now being accepted for the 2006 Lasker Awards in Basic and Clinical Research.
		The recipients of the 2005 Lasker Awards in Basic and Clinical Research, and Public Service, are as follows:
		Basic Research: Earnest A. McCulloch and James E. Till for ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell - the blood-forming stem cell - which set the stage for all current research of adult and embryonic stem cells.
	www.laskerfoundation.org (147 words)

	HSC News Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This is the second year in a row that a University of Utah professor has won the Lasker Award.
		First awarded in 1946, the Lasker Awards - as they are commonly known - are the nation's most prestigious honor for basic and clinical medical research.
		Long considered "America's Nobels", Lasker Award recipients represent the highest recognition for distinguished achievement, primarily because of the extremely rigorous process of nomination and selection conducted by a jury of the world's top scientists.
	uuhsc.utah.edu /pubaffairs/news_detail.cfm?ID=23122 (217 words)

	Researcher to receive award for cancer work
		He will share the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for 2004 for his work with estrogen and breast-cancer treatment.
		The Lasker awards, announced today, will be presented in New York on Oct. 1.
		Officials with the Lasker Awards say Jensen's work paved the way to treatments for breast cancer that save or prolong more than 100,000 lives a year.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/09/26/loc_jensen26.html (370 words)

	Arthritis Research Campaign \| Arthritis Research Campaign scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Two of Britain's leading biomedical researchers Emeritus Professor Sir Ravinder "Tiny" Maini and Professor Marc Feldmann have received the prestigious 2003 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for their discovery of anti-TNF (tumour necrosis factor) treatment as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and other related diseases.
		The Lasker Awards for basic clinical and medical research have come to be known as 'America's Nobels' and 66 recipients of the Lasker award have gone on to receive Nobel prizes.
		Feldmann and Maini were also been honoured by the award of the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 2000.
	www.arc.org.uk /newsviews/press/sept2003/lasker.htm (775 words)

	Lasker Award-winning geneticist to present at Sept. 25 Chancellor’s Science Seminar Series
		The Lasker Awards represent the nation’s most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research.
		Three scientists worldwide are recipients of the 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the award recognizes the researchers’ contributions to development of a powerful technology for manipulating the mouse genome with exquisite precision, which allows the creation of animal models of human disease, the so-called "knockout mice."
		He has received awards from the American Heart Association for hypertension research and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation for his studies on the role of genes in cardiovascular research.
	www.unc.edu /news/archives/sep01/seminar091701.htm (689 words)

	BIOSI: Albert Lasker Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		With me here today is Dr. Martin Evans, who is the director of the Cardiff University School of Biological Sciences and one of the co-recipients of the Lasker Award in the basic biosciences.
		I looked through the Lasker Awards, the previous laureates, and really that represents a pretty good list of my heroes.
		This Lasker Award is a shared award between the three of you.
	www.cf.ac.uk /biosi/new/lasker2.html (2708 words)

	Canadian cancer researchers win prestigious award for their stem cell research -- Government of Canada congratulates ...
		The award is considered to be 'America's Nobel Prize,' and is one of the most distinguished scientific honours given for outstanding contributions to health research and public service.
		"The Albert Lasker Award recognizes world-leading scientists who have made an exceptional contribution to the understanding, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases," said Minister Dosanjh.
		The Lasker Foundation's recognition of their pioneering research almost 40 years after the research was carried out, is a measure of just how far ahead of their time they were, " said Dr. Bernstein.
	news.gc.ca /cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=170259 (456 words)

	Sloan-Kettering - Winner of the 2002 Lasker Award For Basic Research
		He is being recognized for his discoveries revealing the universal machinery of how vesicles -- tiny sac-like structures that carry cargo throughout cells -- know how to reach their correct destination and where and when to release their contents.
		Since 1946, the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have honored scientists, physicians, and public servants whose accomplishments have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and even cure of many diseases.
		Often called "America's Nobels," the Lasker Award has been given to 65 scientists who have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize.
	www.mskcc.org /mskcc/html/11695.cfm (888 words)

	Changing the Face of Medicine \| Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig
		Helen Taussig received the Albert Lasker award for outstanding contributions to medicine.
		In 1954 Helen Taussig received the prestigious Lasker Award for her work on the blue baby operation, and in 1959 she was awarded a full professorship at Johns Hopkins University, one of the first women in the history of the school to hold that rank.
		A founder of the subspecialty of pediatric cardiology, Taussig was elected president of the American Heart Association in 1965, and was the first woman recipient of the highest award given by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_316.html (681 words)

	Lasker Award Winners Announced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 2003 Albert Lasker Medical Awards were presented this week in New York City to two researchers who developed a treatment for arthritis and to a scientist who studies how genes are copied.
		The Lasker Awards, which were first presented in 1946, are sponsored by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.
		They are sometimes referred to as the American Nobels because award winners often go on to win the Nobel Prize.
	www.genomenewsnetwork.org /articles/09_03/lasker.shtml (333 words)

	Emory WHSC :: Press Releases :: Email this Press Release to a Friend
		Patz is credited with saving the sight of countless premature infants by proving, early in his career, that the high levels of oxygen commonly used to treat them caused a condition called retrolental fibroplasia, marked by a proliferation of blood vessels that irreversibly damaged the retina.
		In 1956, this work earned him the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Research, which was presented to him by Helen Keller.
		The award was established by President Truman in 1945 to recognize civilians for their wartime service.
	whsc.emory.edu /press_releases_email.cfm?announcement_id_seq=1079 (823 words)

	INDOlink - News - Breakthrough Research Earns Sir Ravinder Maini ‘American Nobel’
		New York, September 17, 2003 -- The prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research -- the “American Nobels” -- that will be conferred September 19 in New York is a signal honor for Indo-British scientist Sir Ravinder Maini at Imperial College, London.
		The 2003 award, announced this week, is for their discovery of anti-cytokine therapy as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
		What´s more, the award is a good predictor of a future Nobel prize, with almost half of its winners going on to receive a Nobel, he says.
	www.indolink.com /News/NRI/news_091703-005130.php (719 words)

	NIH Record-1-25-2000--The Making of a Lasker Award Winner
		The Lasker award not only commends Hille's extraordinary cellular research, but also honors him as an equal to the great scientists who have long been his mentors.
		Clay Armstrong, who would eventually share the Lasker award and other honors with Hille, was one of the only other researchers at that time to embrace the idea of ion channels.
		The Lasker award panel, made up of internationally renowned scientists, honored Hille, Clay Armstrong, and Roderick MacKinnon for their remarkable work in clarifying the functional and structural architecture of ion channel proteins.
	www.nih.gov /news/NIH-Record/01_25_2000/story02.htm (1382 words)

	Ptashne Wins Lasker Award
		Lasker Awards are the most prestigious awards in medical research given in the United States.
		Along with Ptashne, Victor McKusick of Johns Hopkins University will be honored as the founder of medical genetics, a new field that has led to the mapping of thousands of genes.
		A third Lasker Award will go to Alfred Sommer, also of Johns Hopkins, for his discovery that vitamin A supplements can prevent blindness and life-threatening infections in children.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/09.25/PtashneWinsLask.html (1161 words)

	UC Berkeley biologist wins Lasker Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose work with yeast cells helped develop biotechnology drugs, has won the Albert Lasker Award, the university announced Sunday.
		He is a professor of molecular and cell biology and also works as an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes, which funds research and universities nationwide.
		Willem Kolff, of the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Belding Scribner, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, also will be honored with the Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for their work in the development of kidney dialysis.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/09/22/state2026EDT0097.DTL&type=printable (276 words)

	Human Genome News, January 1998; 9(1-2)
		In recognition of his pioneering work in founding a new branch of medicine— medical genetics—Victor McKusick was honored as winner of the 1997 Albert Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.
		Known as "America's Nobels," the Lasker Medical Research Awards for 50 years have celebrated the scientists, physicians, and public servants who have contributed to major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and cure of many of the great cripplers and killers of this century (http://hopkins.med.jhu.edu).
		Many consider the Lasker Awards, founded by advertising tycoon Albert Lasker and his wife Mary, to be the most significant biomedical science prizes in the United States.
	www.ornl.gov /sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/hgn/v9n1/16lasker.shtml (218 words)

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