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Crain's Health Pulse
A New Yorker wins Lasker Award
For the first time since 2004, a New Yorker is among the recipients of a Lasker Award for medical research
Le Figaro
Le prix Lasker 2007 décerné au Pr Alain Carpentier
MÉDECINE. Le prix Lasker a été décerné cette année á quatre médecins: trois Américains et un Français. Doté de 150 000 dollars, il est considéré comme l'antichambre du Nobel de médecine.
Medical News Today
Lasker Award For Public Service To Be Presented To Anthony S. Fauci
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been awarded the 2007 Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service for his role in developing two major U.S. public health programs, in AIDS and biodefense.
The New York Times
4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize
Two surgeons who developed prosthetic heart valves that have prolonged the lives of millions of people are among the winners of this year's Lasker awards, widely considered the nation's most prestigious medical prizes.
Newsday
New York scientist wins Lasker Foundation award
The New York scientist who discovered key components of the human immune system, and the developers of artificial heart valves, are recipients of awards often called the U.S. equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
The Oregonian
Albert Starr wins Lasker Award
The Portland doctor is honored for developing an artificial heart valve
Science
MEDICAL MESSIAHS
An immunologist who discovered key cells of the immune system known as dendritic cells and two cardiac surgeons who developed implantable heart valves have won this year's research awards from the Lasker Foundation.
The Scientist
2007 Lasker Awards Announced
Ralph Steinman of the Rockefeller University in New York will receive the 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Outstanding Basic Medical Research for his discovery of dendritic cells and his work in elucidating their function as sentinels of the immune system, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced on Saturday (September 15).
USA Today
Heart treatment wins 'America's Nobel' prize
Two scientists were honored over the weekend by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation for their development of artificial heart valves, which have saved the lives of millions of heart disease patients over the past five decades.
The Washington Post
NIH Official Wins Prestigious Prize
Anthony S. Fauci, a pioneering AIDS researcher, bioterrorism expert and highranking official at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, was one of four scientists named yesterday to receive the prestigious Lasker Foundation awards for medical research.