The Lasker foundation and recognition of scientific excellence

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Lasker Award recipients reflect on the significance of the Lasker awards for the credibility, advancement, adoption, and recognition of scientific discovery. Robert G. Edwards, who received the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award in 2001, recognizes the Lasker Foundation as itself a pillar of talented selection, simple and direct in making its awards and he believes that the award has provided a stimulus for him to continue further will full determination.

Author: Edwards, Robert Geoffrey
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005

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The Lasker Awards: Celebrating scientific discovery

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Lasker Award recipients reflect on the significance of the Lasker awards for the credibility, advancement, adoption, and recognition of scientific discovery. Barry J. Marshall received the Lasker Award for clinical medicine that helped in pushing Helicobacter pylori across the threshold of global acceptance as the stomach bacterium that causes ulcers and possibly stomach cancer.

Author: Marshall, Barry
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
Medical scientists, Scientific discoveries

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Subjects list: United States, Evaluation, Achievements and awards, Awards (Prizes), Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
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