Lasker Award 2019: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Jacques Miller, Max Dale Cooper

   Biology

   For their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of modern immunology

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

   Biology

   For providing sustained access to childhood vaccines around the globe, saving millions of lives, and for highlighting the power of immunization to prevent disease

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Axel Ullrich, Dennis J. Slamon, H. Michael Shepard

   Biology

   For their invention of Herceptin, the first monoclonal antibody that blocks a cancer-causing protein, and for its development as a life-saving therapy for women with breast cancer