1979
Winners


Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

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Roger Wolcott Sperry

Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

1979 Albert Lasker Medical Awards Jury

1979 jury
First row, left to right:
*Mr. James W. Fordyce
Treasurer and Secretary
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Dorothy Krieger, M.D.
Mt. Sinai Medical Center

*Mrs. Alice Fordyce
Director
Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards

Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
Chairman of the Lasker Awards Jury
Baylor College of Medicine

*Mrs. Albert D. Lasker
President
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Mathilde Krim, M.D.
Interferon Evaluation Program
Sloan-Kettering Institute of Cancer Research

*Mrs. William McCormick Blair, Jr.
Vice President
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Donald S. Frederickson, M.D.
National Institutes of Health

Second row, left to right:

Bradley Straatsma, M.D.
The Jules Stein Eye Institute
University of California, Los Angeles

Theodore Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.
Cornell University Medical College

Edward Evarts, M.D.
Laboratory of Neurophysiology
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH

Fred Plum, M.D.
Department of Neurology
New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center

Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center

 Joseph E. Rall, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and
Digestive Diseases, NIH

Hibbard Williams, M.D.
New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center

Third row, left to right:
Derek Denton, M.D.
Howard Florey Institute
University of Melbourne

Richard M. Krause, M.D.
National Institute of Allergy &
Infectious Diseases, NIH

Timothy E. O'Connor, Ph.D.
Argonne National Laboratory

Robert N. Butler, M.D.
National Institute on Aging, NIH

Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D.
The Methodist Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine

Frederick C. Blodi, M.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
University Hospitals

James E. Darnell, Jr., M.D.
Molecular Cell Biology Department
The Rockefeller University

Fourth row, left to right:
Roger C.L. Guillemin, M.D., Ph.D.
Laboratories for Neuroendocrinology
The Salk Institute

Jordan U. Gutterman, M.D.
Department of Developmental Therapeutics
M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute

Robert I. Levy, M.D.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH

Isadore S. Edelman, M.D.
Columbia University
College of Physicians & Surgeons

*non-voting member of the jury