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2008 Awardees
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’
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’
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’
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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