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November 22, 2011
Congratulations to Gairdner Directors Joseph Rotman and Brandt Louie
Gairdner Director Joseph L. Rotman has been appointed the 21st Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario and will begin his term on July 1st, 2012. Mr. Rotman is recognized as one of Canada's top business professionals and philantropists and is a strong supporter of science and innovation in Canada. The Gairdner Foundation is proud to have Mr. Rotman as part of its governing body. We offer sincere congratulations and best wishes for his term.
Gairdner Director Brandt Louie is being…

Dr. Fraser Mustard M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (C)
1967 Canada Gairdner International Award Winner for "his outstanding contributions in the fields of thrombosis and artherosclerosis, particularly his investigation of platelet economy, function, and metabolism, which have pointed to a relationship between thrombosis and artherosclerosis, and specifically for his classical experimental flow model demonstrating sites of thrombus accumulation, for the demonstration of platelet phagocytosis, and for…

October 3, 2011
La Fondation Gairdner félicite deux des siens pour l’obtention d’un prix Nobel aujourd’hui
TORONTO, ON (le 3 octobre 2011) – La Fondation Gairdner est fière de reconnaître deux lauréats du prix Canada-Gairdner à la suite de l’annonce de leur prix Nobel de médecine ce matin.
Le Dr Ralph Steinman de Montréal, décédé vendredi, a remporté le prix Canada-Gairdner 2003 pour la découverte d'une catégorie de cellules immunitaires inconnues auparavant, les cellules dendritiques, qui sont en cause de manière importante et particulière dans le début de plusieurs réponses immunitaires, notamment le rejet du greffon, la résistance aux tumeurs, les maladies auto-immunes et les infections comme le sida.
Plus tôt cette année, le Dr Jules Hoffmann de Strasbourg, en France, a reçu…

TORONTO, ON (October 3, 2011) - The Gairdner Foundation is proud to recognize two Canada Gairdner Award winners upon the announcement of their Nobel Prize in Medicine this morning.
Dr. Ralph Steinman from Montreal, who died Friday, had won the 2003 Canada Gairdner Award for the discovery of a previously unknown class of immune cells, called dendritic cells, which are important and unique accessories in the onset of several immune responses including graft rejection, resistance to tumors, autoimmune diseases and infections such as AIDS.
Earlier this year, Dr. Jules Hoffman of Strasbourg, France, was named a 2011 Gairdner Award recipient for his ground-breaking discovery…

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Dr. David R. Colman, Gairdner partner and Medical Advisory Board member, on June 1, 2011. Dr. Colman served on our Medical Advisory Board for the past five years. He also worked with Gairdner on the very successful Pathways of Discovery in Neuroscience Symposium in November, 2009, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Montreal Neurological Institute, of which Dr. Colman was Director, and the 50th anniversary of the Gairdner Foundation.
Dav…

It is with great regret that the Gairdner Foundation reports the death of Dr. Baruch Blumberg in Moffett Field, California, on Tuesday, April 5, 2001.
Dr Blumberg received a Canada Gairdner Award in 1975 for his discovery of the Australian antigen of Hepatitis B, work that led to the development of the Hepatitis B vaccine.
We extend our sympathy to his wife and family.

The Gairdner Foundation greatly regrets the passing of Dr. Peter T. Macklem on February 11, 2011 in Toronto
Dr. Macklem received the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award in 1999 in recognition of his leadership to Canadian academic medicine and for outstanding contributions to clinical care and research in respiratory diseases.

The Gairdner Foundation greatly regrets the passing of Dr. Ernest (Bun) McCulloch on January 19, 2011 in Toronto
Dr. McCulloch received the Canada Gairdner International Award in 1969 alongside James Till in recognition of their development of the spleen colony technique for measuring the capacity of primitive normal and neoplastic cells to multiply and differentiate in the body.

November 12, 2010
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