Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Awards

1. 1971

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For their development of a reliable, specific and sensitive method for the assay of plasma insulin, and their subsequent application of the same principles in the measurement of other polypeptide substances.

2. 1976

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the development of the technique of radioimmunoassay.

3. 1977

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones