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Lasker Award
Awards are given to leaders in medicine (see the Lasker Foundation Web site for details and history about this award). University faculty have won 5 awards:
| Awardee | Department | Date |
Robert A. Good For his uniquely important contributions to our understanding of the mechanism of immunity. |
Pediatrics and Microbiology | 1970 |
| C. Walton Lillehei | Surgery | 1955 |
| Richard L. Varco | Surgery | 1955 |
Herbert Warden Joint award for advances in cardiac surgery making possible more direct and safer approaches to the heart. |
Surgery | 1955 |
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 |
(updated March 30, 2007)