Seymour S. Kety

Awards

1. 1999

   Lasker Award — Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science

   Biology

   For a lifetime of contributions to neuroscience— including discovery of a method for measuring cerebral blood flow that led to current brain imaging techniques, adoptive studies in schizophrenia that established its genetic origin, and visionary leadership in mental health that ushered psychiatry into the molecular era.