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.[1] The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.
| 2024 | Zhijian Chen[2] | |
| 2023 | Demis Hassabis[3] | |
| John M. Jumper | ||
| 2022 | Richard O. Hynes[4] | |
| Erkki Ruoslahti | ||
| Timothy A. Springer | ||
| 2021 | Karl Deisseroth[5] | |
| Peter Hegemann | ||
| 2020 | not awarded | |
| 2019 | Max Dale Cooper | |
| Jacques Miller | ||
| 2018 | C. David Allis | |
| Michael Grunstein | ||
| 2017 | Michael N. Hall | |
| 2016 | William Kaelin, Jr. | |
| Peter J. Ratcliffe | ||
| Gregg L. Semenza[6] | ||
| 2015 | Stephen J. Elledge | |
| Evelyn M. Witkin | ||
| 2014 | Kazutoshi Mori | |
| Peter Walter | ||
| 2013 | Richard H. Scheller | |
| Thomas C. Südhof[7] | ||
| 2012 | Michael Sheetz | |
| James Spudich | ||
| Ronald Vale | ||
| 2011 | Franz-Ulrich Hartl | |
| Arthur L. Horwich | ||
| 2010 | Douglas L. Coleman | |
| Jeffrey M. Friedman | ||
| 2009 | John Gurdon | |
| Shinya Yamanaka[8] | ||
| 2008 | Victor R. Ambros | |
| David C. Baulcombe | ||
| Gary B. Ruvkun | ||
| 2007 | Ralph M. Steinman | |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Blackburn | |
| Carol W. Greider | ||
| Jack Szostak | ||
| 2005 | Ernest McCulloch | |
| James Till | ||
| 2004 | Pierre Chambon | |
| Ronald M. Evans | ||
| Elwood V. Jensen | ||
| 2003 | Robert G. Roeder | |
| 2002 | James E. Rothman | |
| Randy W. Schekman | ||
| 2001 | Mario Capecchi | |
| Martin Evans | ||
| Oliver Smithies | ||
| 2000 | Aaron Ciechanover | |
| Avram Hershko | ||
| Alexander Varshavsky |
| 1999 | Clay Armstrong | |
| Bertil Hille | ||
| Roderick MacKinnon | ||
| 1998 | Leland H. Hartwell | |
| Yoshio Masui | ||
| Paul Nurse | ||
| 1997 | Mark S. Ptashne | |
| 1996 | Robert F. Furchgott | |
| Ferid Murad | ||
| 1995 | Peter C. Doherty | |
| Jack L. Strominger | ||
| Emil R. Unanue | ||
| Don C. Wiley | ||
| Rolf M. Zinkernagel | ||
| 1994 | Stanley B. Prusiner | |
| 1993 | Günter Blobel | |
| 1992 | not awarded | |
| 1991 | Edward B. Lewis | |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | ||
| 1990 | not awarded | |
| 1989 | Michael J. Berridge | |
| Alfred G. Gilman | ||
| Edwin G. Krebs | ||
| Yasutomi Nishizuka | ||
| 1988 | Thomas R. Cech | |
| Phillip A. Sharp | ||
| 1987 | Leroy Hood | |
| Philip Leder | ||
| Susumu Tonegawa | ||
| 1986 | Rita Levi-Montalcini | |
| Stanley Cohen | ||
| 1985 | Michael S. Brown | |
| Joseph L. Goldstein | ||
| 1984 | Michael Potter | |
| Georges J. F. Köhler | ||
| César Milstein | ||
| 1983 | Eric R. Kandel | |
| Vernon B. Mountcastle | ||
| 1982 | J. Michael Bishop | |
| Raymond L. Erikson | ||
| Hidesaburo Hanafusa | ||
| Harold E. Varmus | ||
| Robert C. Gallo | ||
| 1981 | Barbara McClintock | |
| 1980 | Paul Berg | |
| Herbert W. Boyer | ||
| Stanley N. Cohen | ||
| A. Dale Kaiser |
| 1979 | Walter Gilbert | |
| Frederick Sanger | ||
| Roger Wolcott Sperry | ||
| 1978 | Hans W. Kosterlitz | |
| John Hughes | ||
| Solomon H. Snyder | ||
| 1977 | K. Sune D. Bergström | |
| Bengt Samuelsson | ||
| John R. Vane | ||
| 1976 | Rosalyn S. Yalow | |
| 1975 | Roger C.L. Guillemin | |
| Andrew V. Schally | ||
| Frank J. Dixon | ||
| Henry G. Kunkel | ||
| 1974 | Ludwik Gross | |
| Howard E. Skipper | ||
| Sol Spiegelman | ||
| Howard M. Temin | ||
| 1973 | not awarded | |
| 1972 | not awarded | |
| 1971 | Seymour Benzer | |
| Sydney Brenner | ||
| Charles Yanofsky | ||
| 1970 | Earl W. Sutherland | |
| 1969 | Bruce Merrifield | |
| 1968 | Marshall W. Nirenberg | |
| H. Gobind Khorana | ||
| William F. Windle | ||
| 1967 | Bernard B. Brodie | |
| 1966 | George E. Palade | |
| 1965 | Robert W. Holley | |
| 1964 | Renato Dulbecco | |
| Harry Rubin (de) | ||
| 1963 | Lyman C. Craig | |
| 1962 | Choh H. Li | |
| 1961 | not awarded | |
| 1960 | M.H.F. Wilkins | |
| F.H.C. Crick | ||
| James D. Watson | ||
| James V. Neel | ||
| L.S. Penrose | ||
| Ernst Ruska | ||
| James Hillier |
| 1959 | Albert Coons | |
| Jules Freund | ||
| 1958 | Peyton Rous | |
| Theodore Puck | ||
| Alfred D. Hershey | ||
| Gerhard Schramm (de) | ||
| Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat | ||
| Irvine H. Page | ||
| 1957 | Isaac Starr | |
| 1956 | Karl Meyer | |
| Francis O. Schmitt | ||
| 1955 | Karl Paul Link | |
| Carl J. Wiggers | ||
| 1954 | Edwin B. Astwood | |
| John Franklin Enders | ||
| Albert Szent-Györgyi | ||
| 1953 | Hans A. Krebs | |
| Michael Heidelberger | ||
| George Wald | ||
| 1952 | Frank Macfarlane Burnet | |
| 1951 | Karl Friedrich Meyer | |
| 1950 | George Wells Beadle | |
| 1949 | André Cournand | |
| William S. Tillett | ||
| L. Royal Christensen | ||
| 1948 | Vincent du Vigneaud | |
| Selman Waksman | ||
| René J. Dubos | ||
| 1947 | Oswald T. Avery | |
| Homer Smith | ||
| 1946 | Carl Ferdinand Cori |