# Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science. The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.

## List of recipients

2000–present :
| Year | Recipient |
| 2024 | Zhijian Chen |
| 2023 | Demis Hassabis |
| 2023 | John M. Jumper |
| 2022 | Richard O. Hynes |
| 2022 | Erkki Ruoslahti |
| 2022 | Timothy A. Springer |
| 2021 | Karl Deisseroth |
| 2021 | Peter Hegemann |
| 2021 | Dieter Oesterhelt |
| 2020 | not awarded |
| 2019 | Max Dale Cooper |
| 2019 | Jacques Miller |
| 2018 | C. David Allis |
| 2018 | Michael Grunstein |
| 2017 | Michael N. Hall |
| 2016 | William Kaelin, Jr. |
| 2016 | Peter J. Ratcliffe |
| 2016 | Gregg L. Semenza |
| 2015 | Stephen J. Elledge |
| 2015 | Evelyn M. Witkin |
| 2014 | Kazutoshi Mori |
| 2014 | Peter Walter |
| 2013 | Richard H. Scheller |
| 2013 | Thomas C. Südhof |
| 2012 | Michael Sheetz |
| 2012 | James Spudich |
| 2012 | Ronald Vale |
| 2011 | Franz-Ulrich Hartl |
| 2011 | Arthur L. Horwich |
| 2010 | Douglas L. Coleman |
| 2010 | Jeffrey M. Friedman |
| 2009 | John Gurdon |
| 2009 | Shinya Yamanaka |
| 2008 | Victor R. Ambros |
| 2008 | David C. Baulcombe |
| 2008 | Gary B. Ruvkun |
| 2007 | Ralph M. Steinman |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Blackburn |
| 2006 | Carol W. Greider |
| 2006 | Jack Szostak |
| 2005 | Ernest McCulloch |
| 2005 | James Till |
| 2004 | Pierre Chambon |
| 2004 | Ronald M. Evans |
| 2004 | Elwood V. Jensen |
| 2003 | Robert G. Roeder |
| 2002 | James E. Rothman |
| 2002 | Randy W. Schekman |
| 2001 | Mario Capecchi |
| 2001 | Martin Evans |
| 2001 | Oliver Smithies |
| 2000 | Aaron Ciechanover |
| 2000 | Avram Hershko |
| 2000 | Alexander Varshavsky |
1980–1999 :
| Year | Recipient |
| 1999 | Clay Armstrong |
| 1999 | Bertil Hille |
| 1999 | Roderick MacKinnon |
| 1998 | Leland H. Hartwell |
| 1998 | Yoshio Masui |
| 1998 | Paul Nurse |
| 1997 | Mark S. Ptashne |
| 1996 | Robert F. Furchgott |
| 1996 | Ferid Murad |
| 1995 | Peter C. Doherty |
| 1995 | Jack L. Strominger |
| 1995 | Emil R. Unanue |
| 1995 | Don C. Wiley |
| 1995 | Rolf M. Zinkernagel |
| 1994 | Stanley B. Prusiner |
| 1993 | Günter Blobel |
| 1992 | not awarded |
| 1991 | Edward B. Lewis |
| 1991 | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard |
| 1990 | not awarded |
| 1989 | Michael J. Berridge |
| 1989 | Alfred G. Gilman |
| 1989 | Edwin G. Krebs |
| 1989 | Yasutomi Nishizuka |
| 1988 | Thomas R. Cech |
| 1988 | Phillip A. Sharp |
| 1987 | Leroy Hood |
| 1987 | Philip Leder |
| 1987 | Susumu Tonegawa |
| 1986 | Rita Levi-Montalcini |
| 1986 | Stanley Cohen |
| 1985 | Michael S. Brown |
| 1985 | Joseph L. Goldstein |
| 1984 | Michael Potter |
| 1984 | Georges J. F. Köhler |
| 1984 | César Milstein |
| 1983 | Eric R. Kandel |
| 1983 | Vernon B. Mountcastle |
| 1982 | J. Michael Bishop |
| 1982 | Raymond L. Erikson |
| 1982 | Hidesaburo Hanafusa |
| 1982 | Harold E. Varmus |
| 1982 | Robert C. Gallo |
| 1981 | Barbara McClintock |
| 1980 | Paul Berg |
| 1980 | Herbert W. Boyer |
| 1980 | Stanley N. Cohen |
| 1980 | A. Dale Kaiser |
1960–1979 :
| Year | Recipient |
| 1979 | Walter Gilbert |
| 1979 | Frederick Sanger |
| 1979 | Roger Wolcott Sperry |
| 1978 | Hans W. Kosterlitz |
| 1978 | John Hughes |
| 1978 | Solomon H. Snyder |
| 1977 | K. Sune D. Bergström |
| 1977 | Bengt Samuelsson |
| 1977 | John R. Vane |
| 1976 | Rosalyn S. Yalow |
| 1975 | Roger C.L. Guillemin |
| 1975 | Andrew V. Schally |
| 1975 | Frank J. Dixon |
| 1975 | Henry G. Kunkel |
| 1974 | Ludwik Gross |
| 1974 | Howard E. Skipper |
| 1974 | Sol Spiegelman |
| 1974 | Howard M. Temin |
| 1973 | not awarded |
| 1972 | not awarded |
| 1971 | Seymour Benzer |
| 1971 | Sydney Brenner |
| 1971 | Charles Yanofsky |
| 1970 | Earl W. Sutherland |
| 1969 | Bruce Merrifield |
| 1968 | Marshall W. Nirenberg |
| 1968 | H. Gobind Khorana |
| 1968 | William F. Windle |
| 1967 | Bernard B. Brodie |
| 1966 | George E. Palade |
| 1965 | Robert W. Holley |
| 1964 | Renato Dulbecco |
| 1964 | Harry Rubin (de) |
| 1963 | Lyman C. Craig |
| 1962 | Choh H. Li |
| 1961 | not awarded |
| 1960 | M.H.F. Wilkins |
| 1960 | F.H.C. Crick |
| 1960 | James D. Watson |
| 1960 | James V. Neel |
| 1960 | L.S. Penrose |
| 1960 | Ernst Ruska |
| 1960 | James Hillier |
1946–1959 :
| Year | Recipient |
| 1959 | Albert Coons |
| 1959 | Jules Freund |
| 1958 | Peyton Rous |
| 1958 | Theodore Puck |
| 1958 | Alfred D. Hershey |
| 1958 | Gerhard Schramm (de) |
| 1958 | Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat |
| 1958 | Irvine H. Page |
| 1957 | Isaac Starr |
| 1956 | Karl Meyer |
| 1956 | Francis O. Schmitt |
| 1955 | Karl Paul Link |
| 1955 | Carl J. Wiggers |
| 1954 | Edwin B. Astwood |
| 1954 | John Franklin Enders |
| 1954 | Albert Szent-Györgyi |
| 1953 | Hans A. Krebs |
| 1953 | Michael Heidelberger |
| 1953 | George Wald |
| 1952 | Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
| 1951 | Karl Friedrich Meyer |
| 1950 | George Wells Beadle |
| 1949 | André Cournand |
| 1949 | William S. Tillett |
| 1949 | L. Royal Christensen |
| 1948 | Vincent du Vigneaud |
| 1948 | Selman Waksman |
| 1948 | René J. Dubos |
| 1947 | Oswald T. Avery |
| 1947 | Homer Smith |
| 1946 | Carl Ferdinand Cori |