Harvey J. Alter

Awards

1. 2000

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis C and the development of screening methods that reduced the risk of blood transfusion-associated hepatitis in the U.S. from 30% in 1970 to virtually zero in 2000.

2. 2013

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For critical contributions to the discovery and isolation of the hepatitis C virus, which has led to the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic agents.

3. 2020

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus