Prix Lasker 2005 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Ernest McCulloch, James Till

   Biologie

   For ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell — the blood-forming stem cell — which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells.

2. Prix Lasker-Bloomberg pour la fonction publique

   Nancy Brinker

   Biologie

   For creating one of the world’s great foundations devoted to curing breast cancer and dramatically increasing public awareness about this devastating disease.

3. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   Alec Jeffreys, Edwin Southern

   Biologie

   For development of two powerful technologies— Southern hybridization and DNA finger-printing — that together revolutionized human genetics and forensic diagnostics.