Handicapping the Science Awards
Like show biz junkies monitoring the Golden Globe and Directors Guild awards for augurs of possible Academy nods, eggheads see the Gairdner Foundation and Albert Lasker Medical Research awards as Nobel predictors in the biomedical research categories. Consider this: Of the 255 International Gairdner Awards presented by the Toronto-based medical science foundation since 1959, 56 individual winners have bagged a Nobel in chemistry or physiology/medicine. As for the prize sometimes called “America’s Nobel,” the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation asserts that since 1962, more than half of Lasker Basic Medical Research Award winners have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize. Below, recent history.
2001
Leland H. Hartwell: Gairdner, 1992;
Lasker, 1998
R. Timothy Hunt: Nobel only
Paul M. Nurse: Gairdner, 1992; Lasker, 1998
2000
Arvid Carlsson: Gairdner, 1982
Paul Greengard: Nobel only
Eric R. Kandel: Gairdner, 1987;
Lasker, 1983
1999
Gunter Blobel: Gairdner, 1982; Lasker, 1993
1998
Robert F. Furchgott: Gairdner, 1991; Lasker, 1996
Louis J. Ignarro: Nobel only
Ferid Murad: Lasker, 1996
1997
Stanley B. Prusiner: Gairdner, 1993; Lasker, 1994
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Compiled from the Gairdner Foundation, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation and the Nobel Foundation
