Lasker Award 1955: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Carl J. Wiggers

   Biology

   For contributions to the understanding of cardiovascular physiology.

2. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Karl Paul Link

   Biology

   For fundamental contributions to our understanding of the mechanism of blood clotting and for the development of methods for the improved treatment of thromboembolic conditions.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   C. Walton Lillehei, Herbert E. Warden, Morley Cohen, Richard L. Varco

   Biology

   For advances in open-heart surgery making possible more direct and safer approaches to the heart.

4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Carl Muschenheim, Edward H. Robitzek, Irving Selikoff, Walsh McDermott

   Biology

   For establishing the efficacy of isoniazid drugs in the treatment of tuberculosis.