Lasker Award 2011: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Arthur L. Horwich, Franz-Ulrich Hartl

   Biology

   For discoveries concerning the cell’s protein-folding machinery, exemplified by cage-like structures that convert newly made proteins into their biologically active forms.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health

   Biology

   For serving since its inception as a model research hospital — providing innovative therapy and high-quality patient care, treating rare and severe diseases, and producing outstanding physician-scientists whose collective work has set a standard of excellence in biomedical research.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Tu Youyou

   Biology

   For the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world.