Mary Woodard Lasker (November 30, 1900 – February 21, 1994) was an American health activist and philanthropist. She worked to raise funds for medical...
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In 1945 Albert Lasker and Mary Woodard Lasker created the Lasker Awards. Every year since then the award has been given to the living person considered...
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Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 – May 30, 1952) was an American businessman who played a major role in shaping modern advertising. He was raised in Galveston...
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Brody, a real estate developer who died in 1983, and the stepdaughter of Mary Lasker, a philanthropist and champion of medical research who died in 1994....
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Baseball franchise. His sisters are Mary Lasker Block (1904–1981) and Frances Lasker Brody (1916–2009). In 1929, Lasker became involved in thoroughbred horse...
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Lasker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Lasker (1880–1952), advertising pioneer; husband of Mary Woodward Lasker Berthold...
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the Lasker Award and the National Medal of Science. In 2002, Discover magazine recognized King as one of the 50 most important women in science. Mary-Claire...
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Edward Lasker. His paternal grandfather was businessman Albert Lasker and his paternal step-grandmothers were actor Doris Kenyon and Mary Woodard Lasker. He...
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universities. Weaver was a member of the Jury of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation for the 1957 Lasker Award. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 "Obituary: Dr...
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of the NIH institutes get their start, wealthy New York entrepreneur Mary Lasker, and Fight for Sight founder Mildred Weisenfeld, who had retinitis pigmentosa...
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Retrieved July 2, 2022. "Marshall: Emmy Winning Actor (cont.)". p. A17. "The Mary Lasker Papers".[failed verification] "Hubert Humphrey Campaign Ad". Museum of...
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Murrow Jerome Groopman Mary Lasker Dr. Bernard Fisher Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee Dr. Sidney Farber Dr. Susan Love Mary Lasker According to a review in...
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Vincent T. DeVita (category Recipients of the Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award)
out". Clinical Center News. Retrieved 11 July 2017. "1972 Lasker Awards". Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Retrieved 12 July 2017. "Celebrating Leadership...
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funding for his efforts through The Jimmy Fund and Mary Lasker. Inspired by the Space Race, Farber and Lasker appealed to the nation and President Nixon to...
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The Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award, known until 2009 as the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award, is awarded by the Lasker Foundation to honor...
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Control Federation of America, which included a supervisory role—alongside Mary Lasker and Clarence Gamble—in the Negro Project, an effort to deliver information...
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Times Albert Lasker (1880–1952), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wife Mary Lasker (1900–1994)...
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The Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award is one of the four Lasker Awards given by the Lasker Foundation for medical research in the United States...
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Boston Children's Hospital (section Lasker Awards)
"The Lasker Awards". Albert And Mary Lasker Foundation. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2017. Foundation, Lasker. "Awards"...
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General Manager of the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation Mary Lasker Philanthropist & Founder of the Lasker Foundation John Macy President of the United States...
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (category Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research)
American Medical Association. Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, "The Lasker Awards," Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, accessed May 14, 2018, http://www...
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beneficiaries included Abraham, Heatley and Sanders. When the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation asked if it could reward him, as it had the staff at Peoria...
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Clinatec (section Lasker Award)
of futur Patients can't afford to be patient Lasker Award 2014 Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Lasker Award has gained a reputation for identifying...
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Claire Pomeroy (category Lasker Award)
Pomeroy is the president and chief executive officer of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. She is a professor emeritus at the University of California...
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philanthropist Mary Lasker was instrumental in persuading the United States Congress to pass the National Cancer Act. She and her husband Albert Lasker were strong...
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became a spokesman for the National Mental Health Committee, founded by Mary Lasker. In the transcripts of Congressional hearings in the 1950s, one sees...
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William Kaelin Jr. (category Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research)
studies tumor suppressor proteins. In 2016, Kaelin received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the AACR Princess Takamatsu Award....
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2016. "1998 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award in Medical Science: Science communication and education". Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Archived...
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the National High Blood Pressure Education Program at the urging of Mary Lasker who came armed with copies of the Veterans Administration Cooperative...
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952–953 For incomparable contributions to American musical composition. Mary Lasker December 24, 1987 Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 100–210,...
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