Albert Lasker
Clinical Medical Research Award

Min Chiu Li and Roy Hertz

For their outstanding contribution to the successful chemotherapeutic treatment of gestational choriocarcinoma. (More >)

Denis Burkitt

For his outstanding contribution in first identifying Burkitt's tumor. (More >)

Joseph Burchenal

For his outstanding contribution in recognizing the importance of Burkitt's tumor as a model. (More >)

V. Anomah Ngu

For his outstanding contribution to the expansion of the successful chemotherapeutic treatment of Burkitt's tumor. (More >)

John Ziegler

For his outstanding contribution in increasing the cure rate of Burkitt's tumor by chemotherapy. (More >)

Edmund Klein

For his outstanding contribution in the treatment of premalignant and malignant cancers of the skin. (More >)

Emil Frei III

For his outstanding contribution in the application of the concept of combination chemotherapy to lymphoma and acute adult leukemia. (More >)

Emil Freireich

For his outstanding contributions in combination chemotherapy, and in supportive care of patients receiving combination chemotherapy for acute leukemia. (More >)

James Holland and Donald Pinkel

For their outstanding contribution to the concept and application of combination therapy in the treatment of acute leukemia in children. (More >)

Paul Carbone

For his outstanding contribution to advances in the concept of combination therapy in the treatment of acute leukemia in children. (More >)

Vincent DeVita, Jr.

For his outstanding contribution to the concept of combination therapy in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease. (More >)

Eugene Van Scott

For his outstanding contribution to the concept of topical chemotherapy in the treatment of mycosis fungoides. (More >)

Isaac Djerassi

For his outstanding contribution in the supportive care, by platelet transfusion, of patients receiving intensive chemotherapy. (More >)

C. Gordon Zubrod

Special Award: For his leadership in expanding the frontiers of cancer chemotherapy. (More >)