Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in …

In 1987 Hood shared the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Philip Leder and Susumu Tonegawa for studies of the mechanism of immune diversity. He subsequently was awarded the Dickson Prize in 1988. In 1987, Hood also received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.. He is known for creating and developing the technologies of hydrogel-tissue chemistry (e.g., CLARITY, STARmap) and optogenetics, and for applying integrated optical and genetic …

Gregg Leonard Semenza (born July 12, 1956) is a Pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.He serves as the director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a 2016 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He is known for his discovery of HIF-1, which allows cancer cells to adapt to oxygen …

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research: Lasker Foundation: Outstanding discovery, Contribution and achievement in the field of medicine and Human Physiology United States: Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize: General Motors Cancer Research Foundation: Outstanding oncological research. No longer awarded United States

1960 erhielt er den Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. 1966 wurde er mit dem Großen Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausgezeichnet; 1970 wurde ihm der Paul-Ehrlich-und-Ludwig-Darmstaedter-Preis verliehen. 1975 Cothenius-Medaille

The Rockefeller University was founded in June 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research—often called simply The Rockefeller Institute—by John D. Rockefeller, who had founded the University of Chicago in 1889, upon advice by his adviser Frederick T. Gates and action taken in March 1901 by his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Greatly elevating the prestige of American …

Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University.He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids.Berg received his undergraduate education at Penn State University, where he …

Peter Charles Doherty AC FRS FMedSci (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel in 1996 and was named Australian of the Year in 1997. In the Australia Day Honours of 1997, he was named a …

Randy Schekman (Ph.D. in biochemistry), winner of 2002 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, 2013 Nobel Prize winner in medicine Elba Serrano (Ph.D. 1982), neuroscientist and Regents professor of biology at New Mexico State University , recipient of Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring