Premio Lasker 2002: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Premio Albert Lasker de Investigación Médica Básica

   James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman

   Biología

   For discoveries revealing the universal molecular machinery that orchestrates the budding and fusion of membrane vesicles — a process essential to organelle formation, nutrient uptake, and secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters.

2. Premio Lasker-DeBakey a la investigación médica clínica

   Belding H. Scribner, Willem J. Kolff

   Biología

   For the development of renal hemodialysis, which changed kidney failure from a fatal to a treatable disease, prolonging the useful lives of millions of patients.

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

   James E. Darnell

   Biología

   For an exceptional career in biomedical science during which he opened two fields in biology —RNA processing and cytokine signaling — and fostered the development of many creative scientists.