Premio Lasker 1946: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Premio Albert Lasker de Investigación Médica Básica

   Carl Ferdinand Cori

   Biología

   For contributions to the knowledge of carbohydrate metabolism, which clarify the action of insulin in diabetes.

2. Premio Lasker-Bloomberg al servicio público

   Alfred Newton Richards

   Biología

   For organizing the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and for supervising, during the war, the timely mass production of penicillin, the search for a better antimalarial drug, and the preparation of blood plasma.

3. Premio Lasker-Bloomberg al servicio público

   Fred L. Soper

   Biología

   For administrative achievement in controlling yellow fever and malaria through a new principle of species eradication of insect carriers.

4. Premio Lasker-DeBakey a la investigación médica clínica

   Alexander S. Wiener, Karl Landsteiner, Philip Levine

   Biología

   For the discovery of the RH factor as a cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn and of severe hemolysis arising from incompatible blood transfusions.

5. Premio Lasker-DeBakey a la investigación médica clínica

   John Friend Mahoney

   Biología

   For pioneering the treatment of syphilis with penicillin.