Lasker Award 2017: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Michael N. Hall

   Biology

   For discoveries concerning the nutrient-activated TOR proteins and their central role in the metabolic control of cell growth

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Planned Parenthood

   Biology

   For providing essential health services and reproductive care to millions of women for more than a century

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Douglas R. Lowy, John T. Schiller

   Biology

   For technological advances that enabled development of HPV vaccines for prevention of cervical cancer and other tumors caused by human papillomaviruses