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Mary Woodard Lasker (November 30, 1900 – February 21, 1994) was an American health activist and philanthropist. She worked to raise funds for medical research and founded the Lasker Foundation.
Mary Woodard Lasker, Watertown native and philanthropist in the field of medical research, died Monday at her home in Greenwich, Conn. Woodard Lasker, who was 93, died of heart failure, according to her nephew, James Woodard Fordyce of Greenwich.
Among the mostly male figures in the saga of the fight to defeat cancer portrayed in the documentary Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, is Mary Woodard Lasker. Born in 1900, she was a woman ahead of her time – a powerful businesswoman, art dealer and philanthropist who led a crusade to win passage of the National Cancer Act in 1971 and to ...
Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker (1900-1994) acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.
23 de fev. de 1994 · Mary Woodard Lasker, the philanthropist and champion of medical research and urban beautification, died on Monday at her home in Greenwich, Conn. She was 93 years old and also...
4 de mar. de 1994 · Besides being regal in manner, Mary Woodard Lasker, who died last week at 93, undertook benevolent projects on a scale fit for royalty: In 1943, Mrs. Lasker and husband, advertising mogul Albert Lasker, launched a campaign that in effect created the American Cancer Society on the foundation of an organization of physicians many of ...
23 de fev. de 1994 · Mary Woodard Lasker, the philanthropist once called the “fairy godmother of medical research” who waged a personal war on heart disease, cancer and strokes, has died. She was 93.
