Lasker Award 2003: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Robert G. Roeder

   Biology

   For pioneering studies on eukaryotic RNA polymerases and the general transcriptional machinery, which opened gene expression in animal cells to biochemical analysis.

2. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Marc Feldmann, Ravinder Maini

   Biology

   For the discovery of anti-TNF therapy as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.