Lasker Award 1946: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Carl Ferdinand Cori

   Biology

   For contributions to the knowledge of carbohydrate metabolism, which clarify the action of insulin in diabetes.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Alfred Newton Richards

   Biology

   For organizing the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and for supervising, during the war, the timely mass production of penicillin, the search for a better antimalarial drug, and the preparation of blood plasma.

3. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Fred L. Soper

   Biology

   For administrative achievement in controlling yellow fever and malaria through a new principle of species eradication of insect carriers.

4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Alexander S. Wiener, Karl Landsteiner, Philip Levine

   Biology

   For the discovery of the RH factor as a cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn and of severe hemolysis arising from incompatible blood transfusions.

5. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   John Friend Mahoney

   Biology

   For pioneering the treatment of syphilis with penicillin.