Laureate

Andrew V. Schally

1926–2024 · Lithuania · Male

Awards

  1. 1974

    Canada Gairdner International Award

    Biology

    For outstanding work on the identification, synthesis and clinical application of hypothalamic releasing hormones.

  2. 1975

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

    Biology

    For expanding our knowledge of the interplay between the hypothalamus and the endocrine system.

  3. 1977

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain