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	HMS's Szostak wins prestigious Lasker
		The Lasker Award for basic medical research honors Szostak, Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, and Carol W. Greider, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who predicted and discovered telomerase, a remarkable RNA-containing enzyme that synthesizes the ends of chromosomes, protecting them and maintaining the integrity of the genome.
		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 receive an honorarium ($100,000 for each award), a citation highlighting their achievements, and an inscribed statuette of the "Winged Victory of Samothrace," the Lasker Foundation's traditional symbol representing humanity's victory over disability, disease, and death.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2006/09.21/03-lasker.html (458 words)

	Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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 (2392 words)

	PNNOnline
		The Awards will be presented to two scientists who pioneered the use of kidney dialysis, which has saved millions of people's lives, and to the discoverers of cellular membrane trafficking, the process that cells use to organize their activities and communicate with their environment.
		The 2002 Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research will be presented to Willem J. Kolff of the University of Utah School of Medicine and Belding H. Scribner of the University of Washington School of Medicine for the development of renal hemodialysis, a technological advance that has revolutionized the treatment of acute and chronic kidney failure.
		Lasker Award recipients each receive an honorarium, 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.pnnonline.org /print.php?sid=621 (691 words)

	The Lasker Foundation \| Lasker Awards
		The Lasker Awards have come to be known as "America's Nobels" and is the most coveted award in medical science.
		Lasker died in 1994, leaving as her major legacy a lifetime of powerful influence on health and science in America, in large part through her remarkable efforts to expand support for the National Institutes of Health.
		The Lasker Awards focus keen attention each year on an elite community of remarkable basic and clinical scientists whose work has been seminal to understanding disease and the human being's capacity to overcome it.
	www.laskerfoundation.org /awards/awards.html (329 words)

	University of Chicago Hospitals: Elwood Jensen, University of Chicago professor emeritus, receives coveted Lasker Award ...
		The 2004 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research will be presented to Elwood Jensen, PhD, the Charles B. Huggins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago, one of three scientists whose discoveries "revolutionized the fields of endocrinology and metabolism," according to the award citation.
		The Lasker Awards are the nation's most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research.
		Lasker Award recipients receive an honorarium, 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.
	www.uchospitals.edu /news/2004/20040926-lasker.html (1353 words)

	Lasker Awards for Medical Research Announced :: PNNOnline ::
		Now celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Lasker Awards are one of the nation’s most distinguished honors for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research, as well as public service on behalf of the medical research enterprise.
		The 2005 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research will be shared by Ernest McCulloch and James Till of the Ontario Cancer Institute and the University of Toronto (Canada) for ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell—a blood-forming stem cell—which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells.
		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.
	www.pnnonline.org /article.php?sid=6216&mode=thread&order=0 (795 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)

	washingtonpost.com: Four Scientists Win Medical Awards From Lasker Foundation
		The award for clinical research will be given posthumously to Charles Kelman, who made cataract removal an outpatient procedure.
		The Lasker award for basic research will be shared by Pierre Chambon of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France; Ronald Evans of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and Elwood Jensen of the University of Chicago.
		The award honors his discoveries about DNA and his leadership in public policy aimed at eliminating chemical and biological weapons.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A50588-2004Sep25?language=printer (458 words)

	HMS Press Release:
		Often called "America's Nobels," the Lasker Award has been given to 71 scientists who subsequently went on to receive the Nobel Prize, including 20 in the last 16 years.
		Joseph L. Goldstein, recipient of the 1984 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1985 (both with Michael Brown) for discoveries regarding cholesterol, is Chairman of the international jury of researchers that selects recipients of the Lasker Awards.
		The Lasker Awards, first presented in 1946, are administered by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.
	web.med.harvard.edu /sites/RELEASES/html/9_17Lasker.html (461 words)

	UCSF - Blackburn Receives Lasker Award - News Release
		The Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research honors Aaron T. Beck, 85, Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, for developing cognitive therapy, which transformed the understanding and treatment of many psychiatric conditions, including depression, suicidal behavior, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and eating disorders.
		The Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science, awarded bi-annually, honors Joseph Gall, 78, of the Carnegie Institution (Department of Embryology at Baltimore), for a distinguished 57-year career as a founder of modern cell biology, a pioneer in the field of chromosome structure and function, and an early champion of women in science.
		The list of the 2006 Lasker Award recipients with their current professional and institutional affiliations is included with the full press kit.
	pub.ucsf.edu /lasker/release.php (922 words)

	Finding Aid to the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation - Albert Lasker Awards Archives, 1944-
		The Albert Lasker Awards were first established in 1946 to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in basic and clinical research.
		The many Lasker award winners who have gone on to receive the Nobel prize are ample testimony to the international reputation of the awards.
		Due to the confidential nature of the selection process, material on nominations is restricted for a period of twenty-five years commencing on the annual date of the awards luncheon relating to such nominations; permission to use this material must be obtained from the President or Executive Vice President of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /hmd/manuscripts/ead/lasker.html (1054 words)

	USATODAY.com - Lasker Awards given to 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		British scientists Edwin Southern and Alec Jeffreys were honored this weekend for their clinical research that award sponsors say dramatically changed the fields of human genetics and forensic science.
		Lasker winner Alec Jeffreys is a genetics research professor at the University of Leicester.
		Southern, professor of biochemistry at the University of Oxford, and Jeffreys, genetics research professor at the University of Leicester, are the winners of the 2005 Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, announced Sunday in New York.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/2005-09-19-lasker-winners_x.htm (372 words)

	09/26/06, Lasker Award: Aaron Beck - Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 5
		Beck will receive the Lasker Award for developing cognitive therapy—a form of psychotherapy—which transformed the understanding and treatment of many psychiatric conditions, including depression, suicidal behavior, generalized anxiety, panic attacks and eating disorders.
		His work was supported by a 10-year M.E.R.I.T. Award from the National Institute of Mental Health and grants from the Centers for Disease Control for a study to determine the efficacy and effectiveness of a short-term cognitive therapy intervention for suicide attempters.
		He has received awards from numerous professional organizations and is the only psychiatrist to have received research awards from both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/volumes/v53/n05/ab.html (872 words)

	Lasker awards announced \| HEALTH \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The awards, considered the US equivalents of the Nobel prizes for medical research, carry an award of $100,000 but are more important for the prestige they confer.
		The Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research this year is shared among three people - Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, 57, of the University of California, San Francisco; Carol Greider, 45, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore; and Jack Szostak, 53, of Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
		The Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science went to Joseph Gall, 78, of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology at Baltimore, for his work as a founder of modern cell biology and an early champion of women in science.
	tvnz.co.nz /view/page/411749/831465 (398 words)

	The Rockefeller University - Albert Lasker Awards
		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 /awards/lasker (101 words)

	Mind Hacks: Cognitive behaviour therapy creator wins Lasker Award
		Aaron T. Beck, the creator of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), has been awarded the Lasker Award - a prestigious prize that is given to those who are deemed to have made a significant contribution to the understanding and treatment of medical disorders.
		Randomised controlled trials have shown cognitive behaviour therapy to be one of the most effective treatments for depression and anxiety (typically as good as, or better than, drug therapy) and has also been shown to be effective in a wide range of other disorders, such as psychosis, eating disorders and chronic pain.
		Lasker Awards are often thought to be hints as to who might win a future Nobel Prize, as 71 Lasker winners have gone on to win a Nobel.
	www.mindhacks.com /blog/2006/09/cognitive_behaviour_.html (380 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Mary Lasker
		Lasker and her husband Albert Davis Lasker, a pioneer advertising executive who died in 1952, established the Lasker Foundation in 1942.
		Over the years, Mary Lasker served as chairman of the board of the American Cancer Society, a trustee of Research to Prevent Blindness and of the Cancer Research Institute and a director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene.
		Lasker advocated federal, state and city officials and legislators to provide more funds for medical research on major killing and crippling diseases.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /MaryLasker.htm (521 words)

	September 17, 2006 Mass. General researcher Szostak shares Lasker Award for Basic Science
		Presented by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, the Lasker Awards are often considered the American version of the Nobel Prize, and many Lasker recipients have gone on to win the Nobel.
		Szostak is a co-recipient of the basic research award with Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, of the University of California at San Francisco and Carol W. Greider, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
		Although the work of the Lasker awardees was not known to be relevant to human disease when it was carried out in the 1980s, subsequent studies of telomeres and telomerase in human cells have shown that the enzyme plays crucial roles in both cancer and aging.
	www.massgeneral.org /news/releases/091706SzostakLasker.html (778 words)

	Jensen wins Lasker for research on estrogen receptors
		Jensen is one of three scientists whose discoveries “revolutionized the fields of endocrinology and metabolism,” according to the award citation.
		The Lasker Awards were presented at a ceremony Friday, Oct. 1, in New York City.
		The late Mary Lasker is widely recognized for her singular contribution to the growth of the National Institutes of Health and her commitment to government funding of medical research in the hope of curing devastating diseases.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /041007/jensen.shtml (1295 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 awards were created to raise public awareness of the enormous value of biomedical research.
	www.uchospitals.edu /news/1998/19980920-rowley-lasker.html (867 words)

	Picture Gallery
		The 2005 Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research was presented to Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester and Edwin Southern of the University of Oxford.
		Now celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Lasker Awards are the US's most distinguished honour for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research, as well as public service on behalf of the medical research enterprise.
		Below is a selection of images from the award ceremony, held in New York on Friday September 23 at the Pierre Hotel.
	www.le.ac.uk /press/laskergallery.html (137 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: 5 earn coveted medical prizes
		The 2005 Lasker Awards for medical research are going to scientists who discovered stem cells, invented genetic fingerprinting and developed a powerful technology that played a crucial role in mapping the human genome.
		The awards, widely considered the nation's most-prestigious medical prizes, are being announced today by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.
		Mary Lasker created the awards in 1946 as a birthday gift to her husband, Albert, in hopes of curing cancer in 10 years.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002502799_lasker18.html (564 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Five win Lasker medical awards
		The awards, announced Saturday by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, are also going to four scientists who made important discoveries about aging and cancer.
		The four other Lasker winners are Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 57, of the University of California, San Francisco; Carol W. Greider, 45, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Jack W. ostak, 53, of Harvard Medical School; and Joseph Gall, 78, of the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institution, Baltimore.
		Gall won a special achievement award for a 57-year career in which he became a founder of modern cell biology and the field of chromosome structure and function.
	www.newsobserver.com /150/story/487176.html (565 words)

	Dept of MCB, Harvard U: News and Events - MCB News
		Meselson won the Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science "for a lifetime career that combines penetrating discovery in molecular biology with creative leadership in public policy aimed at eliminating chemical and biological weapons," according to the citation.
		The awards were announced on Sept. 26 by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation in New York.
		The Lasker Award also cites a proposed treaty to ban biological and chemical weapons under international criminal law drafted by Meselson and co-director Julian Perry Robinson of the University of Sussex.
	mcb.harvard.edu /NewsEvents/News/Meselson.html (1511 words)

	Museum News \| n m h m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Rogosin Institute and the Lasker Foundation are co-sponsors of the exhibit.
		At the Lasker Awards presentation, Kolff received an honorarium, a citation highlighting his achievements, and an inscribed statuette of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the foundation's traditional symbol of humankind's victory over disability, disease, and death.
		The Lasker Foundation was established in 1942 with a mission to encourage federal financial support for biomedical research in the United States by providing seed money for research projects, then stimulating the federal government to continue the efforts.
	nmhm.washingtondc.museum /news/lasker_awards.html (532 words)

	Randy Schekman Receives Lasker Award
		Schekman, 53, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will share the 2002 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with James E. Rothman of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City, the Lasker Foundation announced today (Sunday, Sept. 22).
		The Lasker Awards for basic and clinical research are touted as the American equivalent of the Nobel Prizes, and 65 Lasker Award recipients subsequently have garnered Nobels.
		For his contributions, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 and received the Gairdner International Award in 1996.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2002/09/22_lasker.html (608 words)

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