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The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation bestowed two awards on five scientists for their groundbreaking research. Max D. Cooper, MD, of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, and Jacques Miller, PhD, of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville, Australia, received the 2019 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for identifying the two classes of lymphocytes, B cells and T cells. H. Michael Shepard, PhD, formerly of Genentech; Dennis J. Slamon, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles; and Axel Ullrich, PhD, of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany-shared the 2019 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing the first mAb, trastuzumab.