Lasker Award 2013: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Richard H. Scheller, Thomas C. Südhof

   Biology

   For discoveries concerning the molecular machinery and regulatory mechanism that underlie the rapid release of neurotransmitters.

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Bill Gates, Melinda Gates

   Biology

   For leading a historic transformation in the way we view the globe’s most pressing health concerns and improving the lives of millions of the world’s most vulnerable.

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Blake S. Wilson, Graeme Milbourne Clark, Ingeborg Hochmair

   Biology

   For the development of the modern cochlear implant — a device that bestows hearing to individuals with profound deafness.