Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

For his key, historic achievements which made recombinant DNA a brilliant reality, and inaugurated a new age of biomedical promise. (More >)

For his brilliant contributions to recombinant DNA methodology, particularly in enzymology, plasmids, and in application of synthetic DNA. (More >)

For his splendid contributions to recombinant DNA methodology, and for accomplishing the first transplantation of genes between cells. (More >)

For his crucial role in creating recombinant DNA methodology through his pathbreaking studies of cohesive single-stranded DNA. (More >)