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The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodward Lasker (later an influential medical research activist). Highly prestigious, the awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels".
Philip S. Hench,Mayo Foundation, and Edward C. Kendall, Mayo Foundation, 1949
Joint award for their chemical physiological and clinical studies of adrenal hormones which culminated in the development of the use of cortisone in rheumatic disease therapy
C. Walton Lillehei, Surgery, Richard L. Varco, Surgery, Herbert Warden,Surgery, and Morley Cohen, Surgery, 1955
Joint award for advances in cardiac surgery making possible more direct and safer approaches to the heart
Robert A. Good, Pediatrics and Microbiology, 1970
For his uniquely important contributions to our understanding of the mechanism of immunity