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The Gairdner Foundation

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

2011 Canada Gairdner International Award Recipients

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

 


 

 

medium_Haim_Howard_Cedar_72dpi.jpgHoward Cedar, M.D., Ph.D.,
Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research
Hebrew University, Jerusalem


 

 

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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 "

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

 

 

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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

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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

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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"

 

 

The 2012 Canada Gairdner Award Winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at MaRS from

 7:30-9:00 a.m.

 

Please contact nora@gairdner.org if you are interested in attending.

 

 

 


 

 The 2012 Canada Gairdner Awards Dinner will be held on
October 25, 2012


 To view pictures from the 2011 Awards Dinner click here

 

 

 

Details of our 2012 Program will be posted soon!

 

 

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