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(GenomeWeb News) – The Inamori Foundation announced on Friday that Anthony Pawson, a molecular biologist affiliated with the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto will receive this year’s Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences.
The Kyoto Award is an international award honoring individuals who advance civilization through significant scientific, cultural, and spiritual achievements. To date, it has been presented to 74 individuals working in the basic sciences, advanced technology, and arts or philosophy.
This year, the Basic Sciences prize [...] Read More »For release on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Pour publication le mardi 15 avril 2008
Calgary researcher's discovery of stem cells in human brain was happy accident for scientist
Apr 16, 2008 04:30 AM
Sandro Contenta
Feature Writer - Toronto Star
Like many eureka moments in science, Samuel Weiss was looking
for one thing and discovered something else.
His discovery – that adult brains have stem cells – has opened the door to possible cures for neurological damage, including the kind suffered in strokes, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries.
Yesterday, the Calgary scientist was one of six researchers given prestigious Gairdner International Awards at a luncheon in Toronto.
Weiss' find 15 years ago has led him to a more recent discovery – the potential of sexual attraction in repairing damaged brain cells. And it has him warning against [...] Read More »
His discovery – that adult brains have stem cells – has opened the door to possible cures for neurological damage, including the kind suffered in strokes, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries.
Yesterday, the Calgary scientist was one of six researchers given prestigious Gairdner International Awards at a luncheon in Toronto.
Weiss' find 15 years ago has led him to a more recent discovery – the potential of sexual attraction in repairing damaged brain cells. And it has him warning against [...] Read More »
Three Canadians given prestigious Gairdner awards
CAROLYN ABRAHAM
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
April 15, 2008
It was a homespun truth passed down for generations that people
are born with all the brain cells they will ever have. Over time,
through age, injury or too much drinking, it was thought we could
only stand to lose them.
But Canadian scientist Samuel Weiss turned that age-old dogma on its head. During a 1989 lab experiment at the University of Calgary, Dr. Weiss accidentally discovered that the adult brain can indeed produce new cells - stem cells, which, like seeds, can even grow into neurons.
The finding immediately raised the prospect of regenerating damaged nerves with stem cells the brain [...] Read More »
But Canadian scientist Samuel Weiss turned that age-old dogma on its head. During a 1989 lab experiment at the University of Calgary, Dr. Weiss accidentally discovered that the adult brain can indeed produce new cells - stem cells, which, like seeds, can even grow into neurons.
The finding immediately raised the prospect of regenerating damaged nerves with stem cells the brain [...] Read More »
February 26, 2008 - The Canada Gairdner International Awards
The Gairdner International Awards, first given in 1958 through the generosity of the late James Arthur Gairdner of Toronto, are one of the three most prestigious awards in medical science, along with the Swedish Nobel Prize in Medicine and the American Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards. The Gairdner Foundation also promotes and diffuses scientific achievement by connecting award winners with Canadian scientists, and inspires Canadian youth across the country through scientific symposia and outreach events.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary [...] Read More »
The Gairdner International Awards, first given in 1958 through the generosity of the late James Arthur Gairdner of Toronto, are one of the three most prestigious awards in medical science, along with the Swedish Nobel Prize in Medicine and the American Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards. The Gairdner Foundation also promotes and diffuses scientific achievement by connecting award winners with Canadian scientists, and inspires Canadian youth across the country through scientific symposia and outreach events.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary [...] Read More »
Seymour Benzer, a founder of the field of modern genetics,
died from a stroke on Friday, November 30 at Huntington [...] Read More »
Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto
We went to the Niagara Falls and it was the first time my young
daughters traveled in a stretched limo. It even had dark windows so
they felt like pop stars. Actually, it was the only time they have
been in a stretched limo, and for that matter my one and only time
too. The Gairdner Foundation Prize is one of the [...] Read More »
Thank you, Viktor, for those kind words.
It is over 15 years since I was first here, and I still
remember with great affection the kindness and hospitality shown to
my family and me by the Gairdner Foundation at that time.
The Gairdner Foundation offers its congratulations to Dr. Mario
R. Capecchi and Dr. Oliver Smithies who along with Martin J. Evans
share the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their
discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene
modifications in mice by the use of [...] Read More »
• Gairdner Foundation presents a free public forum on Advances and opportunities in Cancer Prevention on Wednesday, Oct. 24th at the University of Toronto.
• World’s top cancer researchers discuss our increasing understanding of how cancer can be prevented.
[TORONTO - October 5, 2007] - The Gairdner Foundation
(www.gairdner.org) is bringing eight of the world's most respected
scientists in cancer prevention to Toronto [...] Read More »
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