Lasker Award

Lasker Award 1974: Winners

Recipients

  1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Howard E. Skipper, Ludwik Gross

    Biology

    For contributions that laid the foundations for the chemotherapy of cancer.

  2. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Howard Martin Temin

    Biology

    For contributions to the biology of RNA-containing cancer viruses and elucidation of the mode of action of viral genes.

  3. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Sol Spiegelman

    Biology

    For contributions to molecular biology including techniques of molecular hybridization and the first synthesis of an infectious nucleic acid.

  4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    John Charnley

    Biology

    For conceptual and technical contributions to total hip joint replacement, which opened new horizons of research and treatment in arthritis and crippling joint diseases.