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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

American award for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ999734 ↗
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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.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 51-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946. The account is most persuasive where Albert, Lasker and Award can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.