Lasker Award
The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is awarded by the American Lasker Foundation. The Lasker Awards recognize outstanding contributions to biomedical science and are presented in the categories of “Basic Medical Research,” “Clinical Medical Research,” “Public Service,” and “Special Achievement in Medical Science,” and are widely recognized as the highest honors bestowed upon medical scientists by an American organization. Numerous Lasker Award winners later also received the Nobel Prize.
2021
Prof. Dr. Dieter Oesterhelt († 2022)
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
The biochemist Dieter Oesterhelt is awarded for the discovery of light-sensitive proteins in the membrane of unicellular organisms and their use in the development of optogenetics.
2011
Prof. Dr. Franz-Ulrich Hartl
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
Franz-Ulrich Hartl is being honoured for the discovery of chaperones that mediate the folding of proteins.
1991
Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is being honoured for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development.
1984
Prof. Dr. Georges Köhler († 1995)
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
Georg Köhler is honoured for the development of monoclonal antibodies.
1960
Prof. Dr. Ernst Ruska († 1988)
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin
Ernst Ruska is honoured for the development of the electron microscope.
