Prix Lasker 1996 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Ferid Murad, Robert F. Furchgott

   Biologie

   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. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

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

   Biologie

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

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

   Paul Zamecnik

   Biologie

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