Michael S. Brown

Awards

1. 1981

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For their discovery of the role of receptor-mediated uptake of lipoproteins in the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.

2. 1985

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the discovery of the basic mechanisms controlling cholesterol metabolism, opening the way to a new pharmacologic approach to the treatment of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the Western world

3. 1985

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism