Lasker Award

Lasker Award 1980: Winners

Recipients

  1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    A. Dale Kaiser, Herbert W. Boyer, Paul Berg, Stanley N. Cohen

    Biology

    For historic achievements that made recombinant DNA a brilliant reality, and inaugurated a new age of biomedical promise.

  2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    Cyril A. Clarke, John G. Gorman, Ronald Finn, Vincent Freda, William Pollack

    Biology

    For illuminating the genetics of RH factor, and for directing essential research into hemolytic disease of the newborn.