Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

American scientist and cytogeneticist

British biochemist (1918–2013)

American medical physicist (1921-2011)

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

American molecular biologist

Australian-American biological researcher

Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)

German physicist (1906–1988)

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics

New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist

German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)

American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926–2023)

German-British biochemist (1900-1981)

Australian virologist (1899-1985)

Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate

Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)

German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)

American biochemist

French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)

Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012)

Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate

American neurologist and biochemist

American geneticist (1903-1989)

American biochemist

Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1896–1984)

American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)

British developmental biologist (1933–2025)

American biologist

Japanese biologist (1939 - )

molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate

German biochemist

British artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)

American medical researcher (1897-1985)

Israeli scientist

Canadian immunologist and cell biologist (1943–2011)

American biochemist (1922–1993)

Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)

American neuropsychiatrist

Nobel prize winning American cell biologist

Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

American neuroscientist

English developmental biologist

Nobel prize winning British biochemist

American chemist (1908–1997)

American biochemist (1901–1978)

American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)

American neuroscientist

Polish-American endocrinologist (1926–2024)

American biochemist (1916-2009)

American biologist and Nobel laureate

American chemist, biochemistry professor

American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers

American biochemist

Swedish biochemist (1916–2004)

American developmental biologist

French physiologist (1895–1988)