The 2022 Lasker Awards Have Been Announced
The Awards
Lasker Awards are currently given in the categories of Basic Research, Clinical Research, Special Achievement, and Public Service.
Lasker Medical Research Awardees are selected by a distinguished international jury chaired by Joseph L. Goldstein, recipient of the 1985 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award winners are selected by a jury chaired by Alfred Sommer, recipient of the 1997 Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
For a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science.
For a major advance that improves the lives of many thousands of people.
For research accomplishments and scientific statesmanship that engender the deepest feelings of awe and respect.
For improving the public’s understanding of medical research, public health, or healthcare…read more.
Spotlighting Discoveries
The Lasker Awards program was created in 1945 by Albert and Mary Lasker to shine a spotlight on fundamental biological discoveries and clinical advances that improve human health, and to draw attention to the importance of public support of science.
The Art of Science
What connects science and creativity? How does a series of experiments come to be regarded as “elegant” or a body of research deemed “beautiful”?
Joseph L. Goldstein, Chair of the Medical Research Awards Jury, explores these topics in his annual essays on the deep relationship between art and science.
