In 1945 Albert Lasker and Mary Woodard Lasker created the Lasker Awards . Every year since then the award has been given to the living person considered to have made the greatest contribution to medical science or who has demonstrated public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation. The Lasker is sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels".
2-653: Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of four annual awards presented by the Lasker Foundation . The Lasker–DeBakey award is given to honor outstanding work for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. This award was renamed in 2008 in honor of Michael E. DeBakey . It was previously known as the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. "The Lasker Foundation - Awards" . - Official site Lasker Award The Lasker Awards have gained
4-680: A reputation for identifying future winners of the Nobel Prize . Eighty-six Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 32 in the last two decades. Claire Pomeroy is the current president of the Lasker Foundation. The award is given in four branches of medical science: The awards carry an honorarium of $ 250,000 for each category. A collection of papers from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation were donated to
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