Prix Lasker 1994 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Stanley B. Prusiner

   Biologie

   For the discovery of prions, a new class of infectious agents—opening the way to understanding baffling neurodegenerative diseases.

2. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   John Allen Clements

   Biologie

   For defining the role of pulmonary surfactant and developing a life-saving artificial surfactant used in premature infants around the world.

3. Prix Lasker-Koshland pour réalisations spéciales en sciences médicales

   Maclyn McCarty

   Biologie

   For seminal and historic investigation which revealed that DNA is the chemical substance of heredity and for ushering in a new era of contemporary genetics.