2011-05-10 – The Gairdner Foundation has announced the 2011 recipients of the prestigious Gairdner Awards.
The Gairdner Foundation was created in 1957 by James Arthur Gairdner to recognize and reward the achievements of medical researchers whose work contributes significantly to improving the quality of human life. The Gairdner Awards (including the International Award, Global Health Award, and the Wightman Award) honour and reward outstanding contributions to medical research, and aims to increase awareness of the value of scientific research and discovery. In 2008, the Government of Canada provided $20 million to the Gairdner Foundation to increase the prizes to $100,000 each. This year’s awards will be presented on Wednesday, October 27, 2011 at the annual Awards dinner. For details, please see: http://www.gairdner.org/.
2011 Award Recipients
The Canada Gairdner International Award, recognizes individuals from a diversity of fields for seminal discoveries or contributions to medical science.
This year’s recipients are:
For their pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression:
Adrian Peter Bird, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.
Howard Cedar, M.D., Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Aharon Razin, Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
For their ground breaking discoveries and definition of the family of Toll-like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection:
Jules A. Hoffmann, Ph.D., Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS and University of Strasbourg
Shizuo Akira, M.D., Ph.D.,Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
The Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, recognizes someone who is responsible for a scientific advancement that has made, or has the potential to make, a significant impact on health in the developing world. This year’s award goes to:
Robert Edward Black, M.D., M.P.H., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. ,for his significant contributions to improving child survival and particularly for critical clinical and epidemiological studies to reduce childhood diarrheal deaths.
The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, given to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science throughout his/her career, goes to:
Michael R. Hayden, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., FRCP(C), FRSC, OBC, University of British Columbia; Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics & Molecular Medicine, for his outstanding national and international leadership for medical genetics, entrepreneurship and humanitarianism.
2011 Canada Gairdner Award Recipients
2011-05-10 – The Gairdner Foundation has announced the 2011 recipients of the prestigious Gairdner Awards.
The Gairdner Foundation was created in 1957 by James Arthur Gairdner to recognize and reward the achievements of medical researchers whose work contributes significantly to improving the quality of human life. The Gairdner Awards (including the International Award, Global Health Award, and the Wightman Award) honour and reward outstanding contributions to medical research, and aims to increase awareness of the value of scientific research and discovery. In 2008, the Government of Canada provided $20 million to the Gairdner Foundation to increase the prizes to $100,000 each. This year’s awards will be presented on Wednesday, October 27, 2011 at the annual Awards dinner. For details, please see: http://www.gairdner.org/.
2011 Award Recipients
The Canada Gairdner International Award, recognizes individuals from a diversity of fields for seminal discoveries or contributions to medical science.
This year’s recipients are:
For their pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression:
For their ground breaking discoveries and definition of the family of Toll-like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection:
The Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, recognizes someone who is responsible for a scientific advancement that has made, or has the potential to make, a significant impact on health in the developing world. This year’s award goes to:
The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, given to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science throughout his/her career, goes to: