Lasker Award 1997: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Mark Ptashne

   Biology

   For elegant and incisive discoveries leading to the understanding of how regulatory proteins control the transcription of genes.

2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Alfred Sommer

   Biology

   For the understanding and demonstration that low-dose vitamin A supplementation in millions of third world children can prevent death from infectious diseases as well as blindness.

3. Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science

   Victor A. McKusick

   Biology

   For a lifetime career as founder of the discipline of clinical genetics.