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Awardees
2008 Award Recipients
Victor Ambros PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
'for the discovery and characterization of micro RNA's, important in the regulation of gene function'
Wightman Award
Dr. Alan Bernstein, OC, PhD
Executive Director
Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
New York, N.Y.
'for his outstanding contribution to Canadian health research as a scientist, research institute director and as the inaugural President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research'
Dr. Gary Ruvkun, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
'for the discovery and characterization of micro RNA's, important in the regulations of gene function'
Dr. Nahum Sonenberg, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and McGill Cancer Centre
McGill University
Montreal, QC
'for his pioneering discoveries in cellular translation of genetic information'
Dr. Samuel Weiss, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy and Pharmacology & Therapeutics
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
'for his seminal discovery of adult neural stem cells in the mammalian brain and its importance in nerve cell regeneration'
Professor Harald zur Hausen, DSc MD
Professor Emeritus and recent Chairman and Scientific Director
German Cancer Research Centre
Heidelberg, Germany
'for the discovery of the causative role of papilloma viruses in cancer of the cervix which led to the development of a successful HPV vaccine'
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