The 1980 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards were presented toward the end of the year to nine scientists and to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Four US scientists from California shared the $15,000 Basic Medical Research Award for their work that led to the development of the field of recombinant DNA research. They are Paul Berg, PhD (also a 1980 Nobel Laureate), A. Dale Kaiser, PhD, and Stanley N. Cohen, MD, all of Stanford University School of Medicine, and Herbert W. Boyer, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco. The $15,000 Clinical Medical Research Award was won by a US team of three and an English team of two scientists for their independent development of a vaccine for preventing Rh disease in newborn infants. Vincent J. Freda, MD, and John G. Gorman, MD, both of Columbia University