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News/Event Item
Dr. William Foege to Receive Lasker Award for Public Service
17 September 2001
Contact:
Kendall Christiansen
Public Relations
Geto & de Milly, Inc.
(212)686-4551
kchristiansen@getodemilly.com
This Year's WinnersThe 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is shared by Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies and honors these three scientists for the development of a powerful technology for manipulating the mouse genome with exquisite precision, which allows the creation of animal models of human disease.
The 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research honors Robert Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization, a technological advance that has revolutionized the treatment of human infertility.
The 2001 Award for Public Service is presented to William Foege for his courageous leadership in improving worldwide public health, and his prominent role in the eradication of smallpox, and the prevention of river blindness and guinea worm disease.
Awards Ceremony Remarks by Joseph L. Goldstein, Chairman of the Lasker Awards Jury, and by Ira Herskowitz, member of the Lasker Jury, and Daniel E. Koshland, Chairman of the Public Service Award Selection Committee, 21 September 2001. Goldstein, Herskowitz, and Koshland draw a verbal portrait of each honoree highlighting his contribution to research and public service in support of medical research and health.
 Dr. William Foege is a member of the board of directors of the Global Health Council.
For more on Dr. Foege and the Award for Public Service, go to:
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/library/2001public.shtml
category: News from Other Sources : Awards & Grants
contributed by Andrea Welch on 17 September 2001
North America : United States
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