Lasker Award 1981: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Barbara McClintock

   Biology

   For the discovery that certain genetic elements are not static, but can move from one location to another on DNA.

2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Louis Sokoloff

   Biology

   For developing a noninvasive glucose analogue-based method for mapping brain function, paving the way for the development of PET scanning.