The Gairdner Foundation is proud to announce the
2011 Canada Gairdner Award Recipients

2011 Canada Gairdner International Award Recipients

Adrian Peter Bird Ph.D.,
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Howard Cedar, M.D., Ph.D.,
Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research
Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Aharon Razin, Ph.D.,
Department Developmental  Biology and Cancer Research Hebrew University, Jerusalem

The above scientists won their award for:
"their pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression "

Shizuo Akira M.D., Ph.D.,
Director and Professor, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka

Jules A. Hoffmann Ph.D.,
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg

The above scientists won their award 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"

2011 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award Recipient

Robert Black M.D., MPH,
Professor, Chairman, Edgar Berman Professor in International Health. Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

"for his significant contributions to improving child survival and particularly for critical clinical and epidemiological studies to reduce childhood diarrheal deaths"

2011 Canada Gairdner Wightman Award Recipient

Michael Hayden CM, OBC, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D. FRCP (C), FRSC,
Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics & Molecular Medicine Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

"for his outstanding national and international leadership for medical genetics, entrepreneurship and humanitarianism"