Lasker Award 2002: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman

   Biology

   For discoveries revealing the universal molecular machinery that orchestrates the budding and fusion of membrane vesicles — a process essential to organelle formation, nutrient uptake, and secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters.

2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Belding H. Scribner, Willem J. Kolff

   Biology

   For the development of renal hemodialysis, which changed kidney failure from a fatal to a treatable disease, prolonging the useful lives of millions of patients.

3. Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science

   James E. Darnell

   Biology

   For an exceptional career in biomedical science during which he opened two fields in biology —RNA processing and cytokine signaling — and fostered the development of many creative scientists.