Lasker stamp-unveiling ceremony set for May 19

Madison postmaster Paul Nistler and School of Medicine and Public Health dean Robert Golden will be among those unveiling a new stamp honoring Mary Woodard Lasker during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 19, at the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR) building at 1111 Highland Ave. 

WIMR was chosen as the site for the ceremony because of the university’s connections to Lasker and the groundbreaking medical research that she so generously helped to fund.

The Lasker awards, sometimes referred to as the American Nobels, includes UW–Madison recipients cancer researcher and Nobel laureate Howard Temin; Paul Carbone, who developed a treatment for patients with Hodgkin’s disease and for whom the Comprehensive Cancer Center was named; and biochemist Karl Paul Link, whose discovery of an anti-clotting agent some 76 years ago led to the development of the blood thinner Warfarin.

Joining Nistler and Golden at the ceremony will be Mark Lefebvre, vice president of the UW Foundation; and Walton Schalick, UW–Madison assistant professor of medical history and bioethics.

Lasker attended the University of Wisconsin for two years in the early 1920s before transferring to Radcliffe College.