Fertilization Pioneer Wins Lasker Award
From Times Wire Reports
Robert G. Edwards, one of the developers of the basic fertilization technique for producing “testtube” babies, has won a Lasker medical award.
Edwards, emeritus professor of human reproduction at Cambridge University, is to receive the $50,000 award Friday in New York. Three other researchers will be honored for finding a way to mimic human diseases in mice as a tool for research.
The awards are presented by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Sixty-three recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.
