4 Professors Are Among Winners of Lasker Awards for Medical Research

By JASON M. BRESLOW

Four professors are among the winners of the 2005 Lasker Awards for medical research. The awards, announced on Sunday by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, are sometimes called the "American Nobels," as 70 Lasker honorees over the past 60 years have gone on to become Nobel laureates.

The Lasker...