Premio Lasker 1996: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Premio Albert Lasker de Investigación Médica Básica

   Ferid Murad, Robert F. Furchgott

   Biología

   For discoveries concerning the endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), now known to be nitric oxide, a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system. For the ingenious elucidation of the cyclic GMP signaling pathway of nitric oxide and for essential discoveries that led to establishing the link between endothelium-derived relaxing factor and nitric oxide.

2. Premio Lasker-DeBakey a la investigación médica clínica

   David H. Smith, John B. Robbins, Porter Warren Anderson, Jr., Rachel Schneerson

   Biología

   For the development of the Hemophilus influenza type b vaccine, a polysaccharide-conjugate vaccine that has all but eliminated childhood meningitis.

3. Premio Lasker-Koshland al logro especial en ciencias médicas

   Paul Zamecnik

   Biología

   For brilliant and original science that revolutionized biochemistry and spawned new avenues of scientific inquiry.