Lasker Award

Lasker Award 1951: Winners

Recipients

  1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Karl Friedrich Meyer

    Biology

    For bacteriological research in parasitology.

  2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    Catharine Macfarlane, Élise L'Esperance

    Biology

    For developing cancer detection clinics for detection of early cancer or precancerous lesions in presumably healthy people.

  3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    Frederic A. Gibbs, William G. Lennox

    Biology

    For research in epilepsy.