albert laskar medical research awards have celebrated scients,physicians ...The Lasker Awards were inaugurated in the years following World War II by philanthropists Albert and Mary Woodard Lasker, and were named in his honor. After Albert Lasker's death in 1953, Mrs. Lasker continued as the guiding force behind the Awards. She also was a dominant figure in the five-decade quest to secure public support for medical research funding in America. Mrs. 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.

Since 1962, Seventy-one Lasker Award recipients have gone on to win a Nobel Prize, most within two years of receiving the Lasker Award.

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