Lasker Award · Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

Lasker Award 1949: Winners

Recipients

  1. André Frédéric Cournand

    Biology

    For contributions to the physiology of circulation and the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.

  2. L. Royal Christensen, William S. Tillett

    Biology

    For the discovery and purification of the enzymes, streptokinase and streptodornase.