The 2019 Lasker Award Videos
SEPT. 10, 2019
Learn about the 2019 Lasker laureates and their work.
Read the coverage of the 2019 Lasker Awards
SEPT. 9, 2019
News coverage, features, essays, and commentary on the 2019 Lasker Awards.
Seurat’s Dots: A Shot Heard ‘Round the Art World — Fired by an Artist, Inspired by a Scientist
SEPT 08, 2019
The iconic phrase “a shot heard ‘round the world” signifies an exceptional event. Seurat’s masterpiece La Grande Jatte, painted with many thousand dots of color, came as a shot to the art world—a shot fired by the imagination of the artist and inspired by the color theories of a scientist.
The Art of Science
SEPT. 8, 2019
Joseph Goldstein explores the deep relationship between art and science in a series of essays that accompany the annual Lasker Awards.
2019 Lasker Awards: Information for the Press
SEPT. 6, 2019
Press releases, quotes, and downloadable photos
Read the Coverage of the 2018 Lasker Awards
OCT. 2, 2018
News coverage, features, essays, and commentary on the 2018 Lasker Awards.
James Allison Wins Nobel Prize
OCT. 1, 2018
The Lasker Foundation congratulates James Allison for winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The 2018 Lasker Award Videos
SEPT. 28, 2018
Learn about the 2018 Lasker Award winners and their work.
Announcing the 2018 Lasker Award winners
SEPT. 11, 2018
David Allis and Michael Grunstein for discoveries elucidating histone modification and gene expression; John Glen for the discovery and development of propofol; and Joan Argetsinger Steitz for pioneering discoveries in RNA biology and for four decades of leadership in biomedical science
2018 Lasker Awards: Information for the Press
SEPT. 9, 2018
Press releases, quotes, and downloadable photos
