Prix Lasker 2019 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Jacques Miller, Max Dale Cooper

   Biologie

   For their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of modern immunology

2. Prix Lasker-Bloomberg pour la fonction publique

   Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

   Biologie

   For providing sustained access to childhood vaccines around the globe, saving millions of lives, and for highlighting the power of immunization to prevent disease

3. Prix Lasker-DeBakey pour la recherche médicale clinique

   Axel Ullrich, Dennis J. Slamon, H. Michael Shepard

   Biologie

   For their invention of Herceptin, the first monoclonal antibody that blocks a cancer-causing protein, and for its development as a life-saving therapy for women with breast cancer