Lasker Award
Lasker Award 1994: Winners
Recipients
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Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Stanley B. Prusiner
For the discovery of prions, a new class of infectious agents—opening the way to understanding baffling neurodegenerative diseases.
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Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
John Allen Clements
For defining the role of pulmonary surfactant and developing a life-saving artificial surfactant used in premature infants around the world.
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Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
Maclyn McCarty
For seminal and historic investigation which revealed that DNA is the chemical substance of heredity and for ushering in a new era of contemporary genetics.