Prix Lasker 1946 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Carl Ferdinand Cori

   Biologie

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

2. Prix Lasker-Bloomberg pour la fonction publique

   Alfred Newton Richards

   Biologie

   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. Prix Lasker-Bloomberg pour la fonction publique

   Fred L. Soper

   Biologie

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

4. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   Alexander S. Wiener, Karl Landsteiner, Philip Levine

   Biologie

   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. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   John Friend Mahoney

   Biologie

   For pioneering the treatment of syphilis with penicillin.