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Article: Christopher Reeve Paralysis Found. Honored That Chairman Receives Mary Woodard Lasker Award; Reeve Recognized for Support of Research
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- U.S. Newswire
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- September 18, 2003
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SPRINGFIELD, N.J., Sept. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Christopher
Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) congratulates Chairman Christopher
Reeve who is receiving this year's Mary Woodard Lasker Award for
Public Service in Support of Medical Research and the Health
Sciences.
For 56 years, the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards, the
nation's most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to
basic and clinical research, have celebrated scientists, physicians,
and public servants whose accomplishments have made major advances in
understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and even cures for
many of the devastating diseases of the 20th century.
Recognized for perceptive, sustained, and ...