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–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Emil C. Gotschlich, Michael Heidelberger, Robert Austrian

   Biology

   For the development of a polysaccharide vaccine against pneumococcal diseases.