Lasker Award

Lasker Award 1982: Winners

Recipients

  1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Harold E. Varmus, Hidesaburo Hanafusa, J. Michael Bishop, Raymond L. Erikson, Robert C. Gallo

    Biology

    For the discovery that oncogenes are present in normal cells.

  2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Roscoe O. Brady

    Biology

    For pioneering contributions to the understanding of hereditary diseases, the development of effective genetic counseling procedures, and initiation of possible treatment by replacement of missing enzymes.