The Foundation announces the recipients of the 2026 Lasker Awards.

Emmanuel Mignot, Masashi Yanagisawa

2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa are honored for the identification of orexin, a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness, and for discovering that orexin deficiency causes uncontrolled sleep in narcolepsy.

Kunihiro Hattori, Tomoyuki Igawa, Takehisa Kitazawa

2026 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Kunihiro Hattori, Tomoyuki Igawa and Takehisa Kitazawa are honored for inventing a bispecific antibody that joins blood clotting Factors IX and X.

Michael J. Fox

2026 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research is honored for empowering patients’ voices and accelerating research to find improved therapies and a cure for Parkinson’s disease.

the last supper

Reimagination in art and science: seeing the familiar in a new light and creating new things that didn’t exist before

Essay by Joseph L. Goldstein, chair of the Lasker Medical Research Awards Jury

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