Awards are given to leaders in medicine (see the Lasker Foundation Web site for details and history about this award). Seven University of Minnesota faculty members have received the award.
| Awardee | Department | Date |
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Robert A. Good For his uniquely important contributions to our understanding of the mechanism of immunity. |
Pediatrics and Microbiology | 1970 |
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C. Walton Lillehei Joint award for advances in cardiac surgery, making possible more direct and safer approaches to the heart. |
Surgery | 1955 |
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Philip S. Hench Joint award for their chemical physiological and clinical studies of adrenal hormones which culminated in the development of the use of cortisone in rheumatic disease therapy. |
Mayo Foundation | 1949 |