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	Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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)

	Dr. Belding H. Scribner receives Lasker Award
		Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research on Friday, Sept.
		The Lasker Awards are the nation’s most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research.
		Loren Winterscheid, former medical director of UWMC and then chief resident in surgery, suggested Teflon for use in the shunt.
	www.washington.edu /newsroom/news/2002archive/09-02archive/k092502.html (659 words)

	Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research is awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease.
		1955 Morley Cohen, Herbert E. Warden, Richard L. Varco, Hoffmann-La Roch Research Laboratories, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Edward H. Robitzek, Irving Selikoff, Walsh McDermott, Carl Muschenheim
		The award is mentioned in several Tom Clancy novels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Lasker_Medical_Research_Award (278 words)

	University Of Leicester - Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, of the University Department of Genetics, wins prestigious award
		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.
		Her support for medical research spanned five decades, during which she was the nation's foremost citizen-activist on behalf of medical science.
		Lasker Award recipients 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 representing humanity's victory over disability, disease, and death.
	ebulletin.le.ac.uk /news/press-releases/2000-2009/2005/09/nparticle-kv8-487-wdd (2309 words)

	Albert Lasker -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lasker was brought to the United States from Germany in his infancy and graduated from high school in Galveston, Texas.
		American medical researcher who in 1996 was honoured with the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for work that led to the development of a vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type B, or Hib, which causes meningitis (b.
		June 1, 2004, Boca Raton, Fla.), was posthumously awarded the 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for having revolutionized the surgical removal of cataracts; he turned a 10-day hospital stay into an outpatient procedure and dramatically reduced surgical complications.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9047250 (729 words)

	kolf: University of Utah News Release: September 23, 2002
		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.
	www.utah.edu /unews/releases/02/sep/kolf.html (254 words)

	Global Health Council - Dr. William Foege to Receive Lasker Award for Public Service
		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/article/1254 (262 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)

	Arthritis Research Campaign \| Arthritis Research Campaign scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Professor Robert Winston, Director of Research and Development at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, and Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London, says, “This is an excellent example of how close collaboration between academic researchers and doctors in the stimulating environment of leading academic hospitals can lead to major improvements in treatment for patients”.
	www.arc.org.uk /newsviews/press/sept2003/lasker.htm (775 words)

	Lasker Award -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to (The science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease) medical science.
		They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by (The business of drawing public attention to goods and services) 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'.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lasker_award.htm (176 words)

	INDOlink - News - Breakthrough Research Earns Sir Ravinder Maini ‘American Nobel’
		The 2003 award, announced this week, is for their discovery of anti-cytokine therapy as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
		For the same research Maini was earlier honored with a Knighthood from the Queen and the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
		In continuing research it has now been shown, in Professor Maini’s own words, that anti-cytokine therapy “is both safe and effective and has proven to be far superior to conventional drug therapy in the treatment of both arthritis and Crohn´s disease (another inflammatory disease, that affects the intestine)”.
	www.indolink.com /News/NRI/news_091703-005130.php (719 words)

	Imperial College London - British Scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
		Their research was funded by long-term core support by the Arthritis Research Campaign (arc), and involved a team of scientists and clinicians.
		The research strength we were able to develop enabled us to influence the pharmaceutical industry to move into new territory, which proved to be very fruitful".
		Innovative research at the College explores the interface between science, medicine, engineering and management and delivers practical solutions that enhance the quality of life and the environment - underpinned by a dynamic enterprise culture.
	www.imperial.ac.uk /P4393.htm (1373 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
		James Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule.
		Albert Claude (August 24, 1899 - May 22, 1983) was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1974 for his medicine research.
		Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born on July 19, 1921) is an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nobel-Prize-in-Physiology-or-Medicine (9151 words)

	University of Chicago Hospitals: Janet Rowley, MD, wins1998 Lasker Award
		The awards celebrate their combined discoveries of the genetic alterations that cause cancer in humans and that allow for cancer diagnosis in patients at the molecular level.
		The 1998 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Prize--given to Leland Hartwell, PhD, of the University of Washington; Yoshio Masui, PhD, University of Toronto; and Paul Nurse, PhD, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London--also honors scientists involved in research on the mechanisms of cell division.
		The Medical Science Special Achievement Award for 1998 goes to Daniel Koshland, Jr., PhD, (University of Chicago, 1949), of the University of California at Berkeley, in recognition of his research contributions, his achievements as editor of Science for 10 years, and his efforts to improve teaching of the biological sciences.
	www.uchospitals.edu /news/1998/19980920-rowley-lasker.html (867 words)

	Margaret Pittman
		While at the RI, she conducted pioneering research on the microbiology and immunology of infections caused by H. influenzae.
		The 1985 licensing of a polysaccharide vaccine for H. influenzae type b for use in preschool-aged children was a long-term outcome of Pittman’s early research on this pathogen.
		Research by John Robbins and colleagues, conducted at the Bureau of Biologics in the 1980s, led to development and licensing in 1987 of a polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine for H. influenzae type b that provided stronger protection than the simpler polysaccharide vaccine.
	sunny.crk.umn.edu /courses/BiolKnut/1020/MPittman.htm (705 words)

	University Week - Vol. 20, No. 1 - Lasker Award for Belding Scribner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dr. Belding H. Scribner, professor emeritus of medicine, has been honored with the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in recognition of his pioneering work in kidney dialysis at UW Medical Center, which has saved millions of lives.
		The awards were presented at a luncheon ceremony on Friday, Sept. 27, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
		Scribner recalled in an interview for UW Medical Center’s 40th anniversary how, in a chance meeting one day in a stairwell, Dr. Loren Winterscheid, former medical director and then chief resident in surgery, suggested Teflon for use in the shunt.
	admin.urel.washington.edu /uweek/archives/issue/uweek_story_small.asp?id=641 (672 words)

	UW mourns loss of Dr. Belding H. Scribner
		Scribner, a member of the School of Medicine faculty since 1951, was honored last fall with one of the world’s major awards for medicine, the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, in recognition of his pioneering work in kidney dialysis.
		“Although Belding Scribner is internationally renowned for his innovative clinical research, his motivation always came from his role as a physician caring for patients,” said Dr. Paul Ramsey, UW vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
		Scribner recalled in an interview for UW Medical Center’s 40th anniversary how, in a chance meeting one day in a stairwell, Dr. Loren Winterscheid, former medical director of UWMC and then chief resident in surgery, suggested Teflon for use in the shunt.
	www.washington.edu /newsroom/news/2003archive/06-03archive/k062003.html (889 words)

	Fox Chase Cancer Center: News 1999 - Knudson to Receive John Scott Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Board of Directors of City Trusts confers the John Scott Award, which consists of a copper medal and a $10,000 prize. It will be presented to Knudson by the Honorable Judith J. Jamison, retired Common Pleas Court judge, who served on Fox Chase Cancer Center's board of directors from 1980 to 1997.
		Druggist John Scott of Edinburgh, Scotland, established the award in the early 19th century for "the most deserving" individuals whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the "comfort, welfare and happiness of mankind." For unknown reasons, Scott selected the City of Philadelphia to administer the annual honor.
		In addition to Knudson, the John Scott Award has gone to two other Fox Chase scientists in recent years. Developmental biologist Dr. Beatrice Mintz received it in 1994. Last year's recipient was Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, a Fox Chase Distinguished Scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus.
	www.fccc.edu /news/1999/Knudson-John-Scott-Award-11-18-1999.html (432 words)

	Reporter - 'America's nobel prize' for experts
		LEADING biomedical researchers Emeritus Professor Sir Ravinder Maini, pictured right, and Professor Marc Feldmann have been awarded the prestigious 2003 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
		Sixty-six recipients of the Lasker Awards, first awarded in 1946 and known as 'America's Nobels', have gone on to receive Nobel prizes.
		It is only the third time that rheumatology research has been honoured - the first was for the discovery of corticosteroid in 1949 and the second for joint replacement surgery in 1974.
	www.ic.ac.uk /P4695.htm (460 words)

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		The award is considered the nation's most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research.
		Jones said the discovery came after several years of tracing the sleep patterns of a patient and her large extended family and studying the data and the family's DNA with a neurogenetics colleague and a biochemist friend.
		The younger Sharp said one of the clinic's biggest breakthroughs came when his father and anesthesiologists developed a technique for identifying and relieving pain in abdominal muscles by injecting lidocaine into the muscle knots.
	uuhsc.utah.edu /pubaffairs/pulse_detail.cfm?ID=23139 (1046 words)

	Live! : News
		Emeritus Professor Sir Ravinder Maini and Professor Marc Feldmann from the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology division of the Faculty of Medicine at Charing Cross have received the 2003 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
		The Lasker Awards were first awarded in 1946 and 66 recipients of the award have gone on to receive Nobel prizes.
		The prize was awarded for the discovery of anti-TNF (Tumour Necrosis Factor) treatment as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and related diseases.
	live.cgcu.net /news?id=750 (242 words)

	Synovis - News Archive
		Professor Feldmann comments: “It is a great honour to receive this award, and a pleasure to see that well funded long-term research such as that supported by arc at the Kennedy Institute can have such benefit for patients.
		Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Principal of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London comments: “This is a very significant award both for Marc and Ravinder, as well as for Imperial as a whole.
		Professor Robert Winston, Director of Research and Development at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, says, “This is an excellent example of how close collaboration between academic researchers and doctors in the stimulating environment of leading academic hospitals can lead to major improvements in treatment for patients”.
	www.synovis.co.uk /x/421n.html?recid=313&home=y (887 words)

	kolff: University of Utah News Release: February 19, 2003
		In September 2002, Kolff and Belding Scribner, professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Washington, were honored with the 2002 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
		This first demonstration that a man-made device could routinely replace the function of a natural organ was one of the great contributions of engineering to clinical medicine.
		awards administrator, at (202) 334-1237 or lrao@nae.edu, or Randy Atkins, NAE media relations officer at (202) 334-1508 or atkins@nae.edu.
	www.utah.edu /unews/releases/03/feb/kolff.html (1069 words)

	CNEWS World - Kidney dialysis pioneer found dead
		Scribner's key contribution was the Scribner shunt, a device implanted in a patient that allowed doctors to tap into their blood vessels repeatedly and keep them on dialysis indefinitely.
		Kolff had relied on glass tubes that were inserted into veins and arteries but were extremely painful and could not be used indefinitely because of progressive damage to the blood vessels.
		With Kolff's and Scribner's inventions, the prognosis for end-stage kidney disease "flipped from 90 percent fatal to 90 percent survivable," the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation said in giving its award.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/World/2003/06/20/115850.html (536 words)

	2002 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research -- 13 (12): 3027 -- Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
		On September 27, the 2002 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical
		Joseph Murray, a transplant surgeon, was jointly awarded the
		Lasker died in 1994, leaving as her major legacy a lifetime
	jasn.asnjournals.org /cgi/content/full/13/12/3027 (2376 words)

	He has helped save thousands of lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"That was where all the big-time researchers from the United States and abroad came to present the most exciting papers," said Dr. Eric Larson, a former resident under Scribner and now medical director of the UW Medical Center.
		He "commuted" by canoe to the medical school until he was forced to retire at age 70, one year before the university changed its policy on retirement age.
		Also receiving Lasker awards this year are Dr. Willem J. Kolff, professor emeritus of the University of Utah, who developed the dialysis machine in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and Dr. James E. Darnell Jr.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/88348_scribner24.shtml (914 words)

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