Premio Lasker 1997: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Premio Albert Lasker de Investigación Médica Básica

   Mark Ptashne

   Biología

   For elegant and incisive discoveries leading to the understanding of how regulatory proteins control the transcription of genes.

2. Premio Lasker-DeBakey a la investigación médica clínica

   Alfred Sommer

   Biología

   For the understanding and demonstration that low-dose vitamin A supplementation in millions of third world children can prevent death from infectious diseases as well as blindness.

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

   Victor A. McKusick

   Biología

   For a lifetime career as founder of the discipline of clinical genetics.