Philip Showalter Hench

Awards

1. 1949

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For studies of adrenal hormones, culminating in the first use of cortisone in severe rheumatoid arthritis and other severe inflammatory disorders.

2. 1950

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects