Prix Lasker 1997 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Mark Ptashne

   Biologie

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

2. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   Alfred Sommer

   Biologie

   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. Prix Lasker-Koshland pour réalisations spéciales en sciences médicales

   Victor A. McKusick

   Biologie

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