Bengt I. Samuelsson

Awards

1. 1977

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For isolating and elucidating prostaglandins.

2. 1981

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his identification of thromboxanes and leukotrienes, and for his elucidation of their mechanism of action.

3. 1982

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances