Albert Lasker
Clinical Medical Research Award

Blumberg, B.S., Alter, H.J., and Visnich, S.A. (1965) A "new" antigen in leukemia sera. JAMA 191: 541–546.

Alter, H.J., Holland, P.V., Purcell, R.H., Lander, J.J., Feinstone, S.M., Morrow, A.G., and Schmidt, P.J. (1972) Post-transfusion hepatitis after exclusion of the commercial and hepatitis B antigen positive donor. Ann. Int. Med. 77: 691–699.

Alter, H.J., Purcell, R.H., Shih, J.W., Melpolder, J.C., Houghton, M., Choo, Q.L., and Kou, G. (1989) Detection of antibody to hepatitis C Virus in prospectively followed transfusion recipients with acute and chronic non-a, non-b hepatitis. N. Engl. J. Med. 321: 1494–1500.

Alter, H.J., Epstein, J.S., Swenson, S., Van Raden, M.J., Ward, J.W., Kaslow, R.A., Menitove, J.E., Klein, H.G., Sandler, S.G., Sayers, M.H., Hewlett, I.K., and Chernoff, A.I. (1990) HIV-antigen study group. Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) p24 antigen in U.S. blood donors: assessment of efficacy for blood donor screening. N. Eng. J. Med. 323: 1312–1317.

Conry-Cantilena, C., VanRaden, M., Gibble, J., Melpolder, J.C., Shakil, A.O., Viladomiu, L., Cheung, L., DiBisceglie, A., Hoofnagle, J., Shih, J., Kaslow, R., Ness, P., and Alter, H.J. (1996) Routes of infection, viremia, and liver disease in blood donors found to have hepatitis C virus infection. N. Engl. J. Med. 334: 1691–1696.

Farci, P., Shimoda, A., Coiana, A., Diaz, G., Peddis, G., Melpolder, J.C., Strazzera, A., Chien, D.Y., Munoz, S.J., Balestrieri, A., Purcell, R.H., and Alter, H.J. (2000) The outcome of acute hepatitis C predicted by the evolution of the viral quasispecies. Science (in press in 2000)