Lasker Award · Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Lasker Award 1955: Winners

Recipients

  1. C. Walton Lillehei, Herbert E. Warden, Morley Cohen, Richard L. Varco

    Biology

    For advances in open-heart surgery making possible more direct and safer approaches to the heart.

  2. Carl Muschenheim, Edward H. Robitzek, Irving Selikoff, Walsh McDermott

    Biology

    For establishing the efficacy of isoniazid drugs in the treatment of tuberculosis.