The Price Albert Lasker for the medical research , or Albert Medical Lasker Research Awards , are international prizes rewarding for the personalities of the Medical research clinical and fundamental. They by are regarded much as the anteroom of the Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine.

The Lasker prices are decreed by the Fondation Lasker since 1946 with alive people who contributed to major advances in medical research. They are financed by the foundation created by one of the pionners of publicity Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodward Lasker. They are prestigious prices, sometimes called the American Nobels , justified by the fact that in 2005,71 decreed Lasker prices were then rewarded by the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

The four principal prices are them:

• Price Albert Lasker for the fundamental medical research
• Price Albert Lasker for the clinical medical research
• Price Mary Woodard Lasker for the public property (famous in 2000 since the Price Albert Lasker for the public property)
• Special price Albert Lasker since 1994.

Some French-speaking personalities rewarded for the price Albert Lasker

• Andre Frederic Cournand, in 1949.
• Henri Laborit, in 1957.
• Luc Montagnier, with Robert C. Gallo and Myron Essex, in 1986.
• Etienne-Emile Baulieu, in 1989.
• Pierre Chambon, with Ron Mr. Evans and Elwood V. Jensen in 2004.
• Alain Carpentier, in 2007.

External dregs

• the official site of the foundation Lasker
• lists of the member elects