Lasker Award 2005: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Ernest McCulloch, James Till

   Biology

   For ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell — the blood-forming stem cell — which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Nancy Brinker

   Biology

   For creating one of the world’s great foundations devoted to curing breast cancer and dramatically increasing public awareness about this devastating disease.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Alec Jeffreys, Edwin Southern

   Biology

   For development of two powerful technologies— Southern hybridization and DNA finger-printing — that together revolutionized human genetics and forensic diagnostics.