The 2026 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award honors Michael J. Fox for empowering patients’ voices and accelerating research to find improved therapies and a cure for Parkinson’s disease.

People thought that stress or alcohol led to ulcers, but Lasker Laureate Barry Marshall collected evidence to show the true cause.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly…

The patient who arrived at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, one day in 1968 was only seven, but she was already primed for a heart attack. Her cholesterol levels were more than seven times higher than normal. So much cholesterol was coursing through her blood that the fat-like substance was visible

The 2023 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors James G. Fujimoto, David Huang, and Eric A. Swanson for the invention of optical coherence tomography, a technology that revolutionized ophthalmology—allowing rapid detection of diseases of the retina that impair vision.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly…

What was life like for Lasker Laureates while they were doing their Award-winning work? Listen in as Award Winners share their personal stories. You will hear about starting off in research during a World War, learn how Laureates navigated family and career, and find out how

The 2026 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award honors Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa for identification of orexin, a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness, and the discovery that orexin deficiency causes uncontrolled sleep in narcolepsy—revealing a key insight into the nature of sleep.

In May of 1995, a man was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition and broke his neck, becoming paralyzed from the shoulders down. This would be a life-altering injury for anyone, but this man was Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman from 1978 to 1987. After his accident, Reeve became a forceful and eloquent advocate for federal funding of medical research. In 2003, he received the Public Service Lasker Award.

A physician-scientist discusses the role of uncertainty in scientific research.

In an extraordinary convergence, Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa employed two entirely different approaches to establish the pathogenesis of...

The 2026 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors Kunihiro Hattori, Tomoyuki Igawa, and Takehisa Kitazawa for invention of a bispecific antibody that joins blood clotting Factors IX and X—restoring deficient Factor VIII activity in hemophilia A and preventing severe bleeding in this genetic disorder.

One received the prize for his work on a sleep-regulating brain chemical, and a trio, for discovering an antibody therapy for hemophilia A patients.

Hear how systems engineer and Lasker Laureate Lauren Gardner explores the interplay between disease spread and human movement. She also shares how to deal with uncertainty and setbacks in research.