Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award goes to
Michael Sheetz, James Spudich and Ronald Vale
For discoveries concerning the cell’s protein-folding machinery, exemplified by cage-like structures that convert newly made proteins into their biologically active forms.
Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award goes to
Roy Calne and Thomas E. Starzl
For the development of liver transplantation, which has restored normal life to thousands of patients with end-stage liver disease.
I highly recommend reading their essays published in Nature Medicine.
Michael Sheetz, James Spudich, Ronald Vale, Roy Calne, Thomas E. Starzl