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Previous Lasker Award Winners
Special Achievement Awards
1999
Seymour KetyFor a lifetime of contributions to neuroscience -- including discovery of methods for measuring cerebral blood flow that led to current brain imaging techniques, studies of adopted individuals with schizophrenia that established the importance of genetics in causing the disease, and visionary leadership in mental health that ushered psychiatry into the molecular era.
1998
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.For his accomplishments on diverse fronts as a visionary biochemist, tireless institution-builder, and eloquent public communicator.
1997
Victor A. McKusickFor a lifetime career as founder of the discipline of clinical genetics.
1996
Paul C. Zamecnik, M.D.For brilliant and original work that led to the deciphering of the genetic code.
* Albert Lasker Award Winner who later received the Nobel Prize.
** Nobel Laureate when the Albert Lasker Award for this work was given.
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