Lasker Award 1985: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Joseph L. Goldstein, Michael S. Brown

   Biology

   For the discovery of the basic mechanisms controlling cholesterol metabolism, opening the way to a new pharmacologic approach to the treatment of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the Western world

2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Bernard Fisher

   Biology

   For shaping the character of modern breast cancer treatment, thus lengthening and enriching the lives of women suffering from this disease.