The Albert Lasker Awards are given in honor of medical research of a pioneering nature.

Basic Research Awards

1950: George Wells Beadle, for contributions to the understanding of the genetic control of metabolic processes.

1951: Karl F. Meyer, for bacteriological research in parasitology.

1952: F. MacFarlane Burnet, for fundamentally modifying knowledge of viruses and of the inheritance of characteristics by viruses.

1953: Hans A. Krebs, for the discovery of urea and the uric-acid cycles; Michael Heidelberger, for the development of the field of immunochemistry; George Wald, for his explanation of the physiology of human vision.

1954: Edwin B. Astwood, for research on endocrine function leading to the control of hyperthyroidism; John F. Enders, for the cultivation of the viruses of poliomyelitis, mumps, and measles.

1955: Karl Paul Link, for work on the mechanism of blood clotting and the development of methods of treatment for thromboembolic conditions.

1956: Karl Meyer and Francis O. Schmitt...