Lasker Award 1978: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Hans W. Kosterlitz, John Hughes, Solomon H. Snyder

   Biology

   For identifying the relation of the opiate receptors to the naturally occurring enkephalins.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Elliot L. Richardson

   Biology

   For his crucial decision in 1972, as HEW Secretary, to inaugurate a national hypertension control program to lower death rates from stroke, kidney and heart diseases.

3. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Theodore Cooper

   Biology

   For implementing in 1972 the National High Blood Pressure Education Program which has contributed significantly to the cut in deaths from stroke, kidney and heart diseases.

4. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Emil C. Gotschlich, Michael Heidelberger, Robert Austrian

   Biology

   For the development of a polysaccharide vaccine against pneumococcal diseases.