Lasker Award

Lasker Award 1983: Winners

Recipients

  1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Eric R. Kandel, Vernon B. Mountcastle

    Biology

    For the application of cell biology techniques to the study of behavior, revealing mechanisms underlying learning and memory.

  2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    F. Mason Sones

    Biology

    For combining the techniques of cardiac catheterization and coronary artery cinematography, thus inaugurating the modern era of diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease.