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.
| 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 |