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–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.