Lasker Award 1987: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Leroy Hood, Philip Leder, Susumu Tonegawa

   Biology

   For imaginative studies of somatic recombinations in the immune system, detailing in molecular terms the genetics of antibody diversity.

2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Mogens Schou

   Biology

   For landmark clinical trials of lithium as therapy and prophylaxis for manic depressive illness, initiating a revolution in the treatment of mental disease.