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The 1996 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award was shared by Ferid Murad, 60, the former president and CEO of Molecular Geriatrics Corp. in Lake Bluff, Ill., and Robert F. Furchgott, 80, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. They were honored for their fundamental research on nitric oxide, now recognized as an important biochemical messenger.
Two teams shared the 1996 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award for their research in developing a vaccine against the bacterium Haemophilis influenzae type b (Hib). John B. Robbins, 64, chief of the laboratory of developmental and molecular immunity at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Rachel Schneerson, 64, head of the section on bacterial disease in the NICHD laboratory of developmental and molecular immunity, were jointly honored with David H. Smith, 65, the president of the ...
