Lasker Award 2026: Winners

Recipients

1. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Emmanuel Mignot, Masashi Yanagisawa

   Biology

   For identification of orexin, a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness, and discovery that orexin deficiency causes uncontrolled sleep in narcolepsy

2. Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

   Michael J. Fox

   Biology

   For empowering patients' voices and accelerating research to find improved therapies and a cure for Parkinson's disease

3. Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Takehisa Kitazawa, Kunihiro Hattori, Tomoyuki Igawa

   Biology

   For invention of a bispecific antibody that joins blood clotting Factors IX and X – restoring the deficient Factor VIII activity in hemophilia A and preventing severe bleeding