Dr. Richard Losick, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbial Development and Gene Regulation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

"for the discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division, processes key in cell differentiation and in the generation of cell diversity"

Dr. Kazutoshi Mori, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan  

"for the dissection and elucidation of a key pathway in the unfolded protein response which regulates protein folding in the cell"

Dr. Nubia Muñoz, M.D. Canada Gairdner Global Health Award

Consultant, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spainand Emeritus Professor, National Cancer Institute, Bogota, Colombia

"for her epidemiological studies that defined the essential role of the human papilloma virus in the etiology of cervical cancer on a global level which led to the development of successful prophylactic vaccines"

 Dr. David Sackett, OC, MD, FRSC, FRCP
Canada Gairdner Wightman Award

Professor Emeritus, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

"for his leadership in the fields of clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, which have had major impacts internationally in applied clinical research and in the practice of medicine"

Dr. Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D.

Director, Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine Professor, Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine 

"for the discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division, processes key in cell differentiation and in the generation of cell diversity"

Dr. Peter Walter, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

University of California, San Francisco, CA  

"for the dissection and elucidation of a key pathway in the unfolded protein response which regulates protein folding in the cell"

Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan   

"for his demonstration that the key transcription factors which specify pluripotency may become reprogrammed somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells"