Baltimore Wins Lasker–Koshland Award

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation has bestowed its prestigious Lasker–Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science upon David Baltimore, PhD, president emeritus and distinguished professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, and 1975 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, calling him “one of the premier biomedical scientists of the last five decades.”