Lasker Award
Lasker Award 2025: Winners
Recipients
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Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Dirk Görlich, Steven L. McKnight
For discoveries that exposed the structures and functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences, revealing new principles of intracellular transport and cellular organization
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Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Jesús (Tito) González, Michael J. Welsh, Paul Negulescu
For their key roles in developing a novel treatment for cystic fibrosis—a triple-drug combination that saves the lives of people with this lethal genetic disease
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Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
Lucy Shapiro
For a 55-year career in biomedical science—honored for discovering how bacteria coordinate their genetic logic in time and space to generate distinct daughter cells; for founding Stanford’s distinguished Department of Developmental Biology; and for exemplary leadership at the national level