The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science. The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.
List of recipients
thumb|160px|[[Selman Waksman]]
thumb|160px|[[Marshall W. Nirenberg]]
thumb|160px|[[Rita Levi-Montalcini]]
thumb|160px|[[Aaron Ciechanover]]
{| class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"
|+ 2000–present
! Year !! Recipient
|-
| Rowspan="2"|2025 || Dirk Görlich
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| | Steven L. McKnight
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| Rowspan="1"|2024 || Zhijian Chen
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| Rowspan="2"|2023 || Demis Hassabis
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| | John M. Jumper
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| Rowspan="3"|2022 || Richard O. Hynes
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| | Erkki Ruoslahti
|-
| | Timothy A. Springer
|-
| Rowspan="3"|2021 || Karl Deisseroth
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| | Peter Hegemann
|-
| | Dieter Oesterhelt
|-
| Rowspan="1"|2020 || not awarded
|-
| Rowspan="2"|2019 || Max Dale Cooper
|-
| | Jacques Miller
|-
| Rowspan="2"|2018 || C. David Allis
|-
| | Michael Grunstein
|-
| Rowspan="1"|2017 || Michael N. Hall
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| Rowspan="3"|2016 || William Kaelin Jr.
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| | Peter J. Ratcliffe
|-
| | Gregg L. Semenza
|-
| Rowspan="2"|2015 || Stephen J. Elledge
|-
| | Evelyn M. Witkin
|-
| Rowspan="2"|2014 || Kazutoshi Mori
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| | Peter Walter
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| Rowspan="2"|2013 || Richard H. Scheller
|-
| | Thomas C. Südhof
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| Rowspan="3"|2012 || Michael Sheetz
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| | James Spudich
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| | Ronald Vale
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| Rowspan="2"|2011 || Franz-Ulrich Hartl
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| | Arthur L. Horwich
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| Rowspan="2"|2010 || Douglas L. Coleman
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| | Jeffrey M. Friedman
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| Rowspan="2"|2009 || John Gurdon
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| | Shinya Yamanaka
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| Rowspan="3"|2008 || Victor R. Ambros
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| | David C. Baulcombe
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| | Gary B. Ruvkun
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| Rowspan="1"|2007 || Ralph M. Steinman
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| Rowspan="3"|2006 || Elizabeth Blackburn
|-
| | Carol W. Greider
|-
| | Jack Szostak
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| Rowspan="2"|2005 || Ernest McCulloch
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| | James Till
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| Rowspan="3"|2004 || Pierre Chambon
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| | Ronald M. Evans
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| | Elwood V. Jensen
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| Rowspan="1"|2003 || Robert G. Roeder
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| Rowspan="2"|2002 || James E. Rothman
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| | Randy W. Schekman
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| Rowspan="3"|2001 || Mario Capecchi
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| | Martin Evans
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| | Oliver Smithies
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| Rowspan="3"|2000 || Aaron Ciechanover
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| | Avram Hershko
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| | Alexander Varshavsky
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"
|+ 1980–1999
! Year !! Recipient
|-
| Rowspan="3"|1999 || Clay Armstrong
|-
| | Bertil Hille
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| | Roderick MacKinnon
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| Rowspan="3"|1998 || Leland H. Hartwell
|-
| | Yoshio Masui
|-
| | Paul Nurse
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| Rowspan="1"|1997 || Mark S. Ptashne
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| Rowspan="2"|1996 || Robert F. Furchgott
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| | Ferid Murad
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| Rowspan="5"|1995 || Peter C. Doherty
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| | Jack L. Strominger
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| | Emil R. Unanue
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| | Don C. Wiley
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| | Rolf M. Zinkernagel
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| Rowspan="1"|1994 || Stanley B. Prusiner
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| Rowspan="1"|1993 || Günter Blobel
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| Rowspan="1"|1992 || not awarded
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| Rowspan="2"|1991 || Edward B. Lewis
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| | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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| Rowspan="1"|1990 || not awarded
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| Rowspan="4"|1989 || Michael J. Berridge
|-
| | Alfred G. Gilman
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| | Edwin G. Krebs
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| | Yasutomi Nishizuka
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| Rowspan="2"|1988 || Thomas R. Cech
|-
| | Phillip A. Sharp
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| Rowspan="3"|1987 || Leroy Hood
|-
| | Philip Leder
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| | Susumu Tonegawa
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| Rowspan="2"|1986 || Rita Levi-Montalcini
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| | Stanley Cohen
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| Rowspan="2"|1985 || Michael S. Brown
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| | Joseph L. Goldstein
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| Rowspan="3"|1984 || Michael Potter
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| | Georges J. F. Köhler
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| | César Milstein
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| Rowspan="2"|1983 || Eric R. Kandel
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| | Vernon B. Mountcastle
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| Rowspan="5"|1982 || J. Michael Bishop
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| | Raymond L. Erikson
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| | Hidesaburo Hanafusa
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| | Harold E. Varmus
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| | Robert C. Gallo
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| Rowspan="1"|1981 || Barbara McClintock
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| Rowspan="4"|1980 || Paul Berg
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| | Herbert W. Boyer
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| | Stanley N. Cohen
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| | A. Dale Kaiser
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"
|+ 1960–1979
! Year !! Recipient
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| Rowspan="3"|1979 || Walter Gilbert
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| | Frederick Sanger
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| | Roger Wolcott Sperry
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| Rowspan="3"|1978 || Hans W. Kosterlitz
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| | John Hughes
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| | Solomon H. Snyder
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| Rowspan="3"|1977 || K. Sune D. Bergström
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| | Bengt Samuelsson
|-
| | John R. Vane
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| Rowspan="1"|1976 || Rosalyn S. Yalow
|-
| Rowspan="4"|1975 || Roger C.L. Guillemin
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| | Andrew V. Schally
|-
| | Frank J. Dixon
|-
| | Henry G. Kunkel
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| Rowspan="4"|1974 || Ludwik Gross
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| | Howard E. Skipper
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| | Sol Spiegelman
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| | Howard M. Temin
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| Rowspan="1"|1973 || not awarded
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| Rowspan="1"|1972 || not awarded
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| Rowspan="3"|1971 || Seymour Benzer
|-
| | Sydney Brenner
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| | Charles Yanofsky
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| Rowspan="1"|1970 || Earl W. Sutherland
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| Rowspan="1"|1969 || Bruce Merrifield
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| Rowspan="3"|1968 || Marshall W. Nirenberg
|-
| | H. Gobind Khorana
|-
| | William F. Windle
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| Rowspan="1"|1967 || Bernard B. Brodie
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| Rowspan="1"|1966 || George E. Palade
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| Rowspan="1"|1965 || Robert W. Holley
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| Rowspan="2"|1964 || Renato Dulbecco
|-
| | Harry Rubin (de)
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| Rowspan="1"|1963 || Lyman C. Craig
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| Rowspan="1"|1962 || Choh H. Li
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| Rowspan="1"|1961 || not awarded
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| Rowspan="7"|1960 || M.H.F. Wilkins
|-
| | F.H.C. Crick
|-
| | James D. Watson
|-
| | James V. Neel
|-
| | L.S. Penrose
|-
| | Ernst Ruska
|-
| | James Hillier
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="display:inline-table;"
|+ 1946–1959
! Year !! Recipient
|-
| Rowspan="2"|1959 || Albert Coons
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| | Jules Freund
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| Rowspan="6"|1958 || Peyton Rous
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| | Theodore Puck
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| | Alfred D. Hershey
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| | Gerhard Schramm (de)
|-
| | Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
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| | Irvine H. Page
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| Rowspan="1"|1957 || Isaac Starr
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| Rowspan="2"|1956 || Karl Meyer
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| | Francis O. Schmitt
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| Rowspan="2"|1955 || Karl Paul Link
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| | Carl J. Wiggers
|-
| Rowspan="3"|1954 || Edwin B. Astwood
|-
| | John Franklin Enders
|-
| | Albert Szent-Györgyi
|-
| Rowspan="3"|1953 || Hans A. Krebs
|-
| | Michael Heidelberger
|-
| | George Wald
|-
| Rowspan="1"|1952 || Frank Macfarlane Burnet
|-
| Rowspan="1"|1951 || Karl Friedrich Meyer
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| Rowspan="1"|1950 || George Wells Beadle
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| Rowspan="3"|1949 || André Cournand
|-
| | William S. Tillett
|-
| | L. Royal Christensen
|-
| Rowspan="3"|1948 || Vincent du Vigneaud
|-
| | Selman Waksman
|-
| | René J. Dubos
|-
| Rowspan="2"|1947 || Oswald T. Avery
|-
| | Homer Smith
|-
| Rowspan="1"|1946 || Carl Ferdinand Cori
|}
See also
- List of biomedical science awards