Congratulations 2005 Lasker Award Recipients!
The Lasker Foundation was created to encourage public awareness, appreciation, and understanding of promising achievements in medical science. The annual awards were started in the 1940’s by philanthropists Albert and Mary Woodard Lasker. Half of those who receive Lasker Awards win the the Nobel prize, most within two years of the Lasker.
The recipients of the 2005 Lasker Awards in Basic and Clinical Research, and Public Service, are as follows:
Basic Research: Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till for ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell - the blood-forming stem cell - which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells.
Clinical Research: Edwin M. Southern and Alec John Jeffreys for development of two powerful technologies - Southern hybridization and DNA fingerprinting - that together revolutionized human genetics and forensic diagnostics.
Public Service: Nancy G. Brinker for creating one of the world’s great foundations devoted to curing breast cancer and dramatically increasing public awareness about this devastating disease.
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