Prix Lasker 2002 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman

   Biologie

   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. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   Belding H. Scribner, Willem J. Kolff

   Biologie

   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. Prix Lasker-Koshland pour réalisations spéciales en sciences médicales

   James E. Darnell

   Biologie

   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.