Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
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. The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 50% of the winners have gone on to win one.
List of recipients
| Year | Recipient |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |