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…

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…

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 75^th anniversary of the Montreal Neurological Institute, of which Dr. Colman was Director, and the 50^th 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.