NEW ROLE: Lasker laureate Joseph L. Goldstein takes over as jury chair.
The roster of Lasker laureates reads like a Who's Who of modern biomedical science: Oswald Avery, Edwin Krebs, Peyton Rous, Barbara McClintock, Rosalyn Yalow, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, James Watson and Francis Crick, J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, among many illustrious others. Goldstein, chairman of the department of molecular genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, adds that the Lasker awards stand out because of their long tradition and their ability-by widespread publicity surrounding their conferral-to make the process of science better known to the public.
The awards are bestowed by the New York-based Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, created by the Laskers to raise awareness of disease and the importance of funding research to improve public health. The Basic Research and Clinical Research awards were first given in 1946. Albert Lasker, ...
