Lasker Foundation
The foundation Albert and Mary Lasker set up in 1942 to push medical research up the public agenda; its Lasker Awards became the most watched prize in American medicine.
Overview
Albert Lasker, the advertising pioneer (1880-1952), and Mary Woodard Lasker (1901-1994) founded the Lasker Foundation in 1942. Its stated mission is to improve health by accelerating support for medical research through recognition of research excellence, advocacy, and education. The Lasker Awards, given since the mid-1940s, honour basic and clinical research and public service; the Foundation also runs education and advocacy programmes. Alongside Mary Lasker's lobbying for the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Foundation was the platform from which the Laskers turned cancer research into a matter of national policy.
- Lasker Awards
- Research advocacy
- Education programmes
The man who invented modern advertising put his fortune and his methods behind medical research, founding the Lasker Foundation with his wife Mary in 1942; after his death in 1952 she carried the campaign for cancer research into law.
She turned the American Cancer Society into a research funder in the 1940s, built the Lasker Awards, and led the lobbying that produced the 1971 National Cancer Act and the modern NCI budget.
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