Word: lasker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Children's Surgery at the Medical School, will receive the 1959 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for distinguished achievement in the field of cardio-vascular research" in Philadelphia Sunday...
...first time, two special ($5,000) Lasker awards went to members of Congress for championing increased appropriations for medical research: Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and Rhode Island's Congressman John E. Fogarty...
Last week Iowa-born Gilbert Dalldorf, 59, won one of the 1959 Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory statuette) for following the White Plains footprints to Coxsackie and beyond, and also for showing that one viral infection may interfere with the development of another. (This may explain why, though Coxsackie and polio often coincide, one usually predominates and few if any patients seem to get both diseases...
...Other Lasker winners in public health and medical research...
Other winners of the 1958 Lasker A.P.H.A. awards...