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–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.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   John Friend Mahoney

   Biology

   For pioneering the treatment of syphilis with penicillin.