2022 Gairdner Science Week Laureate Lectures
The highly anticipated annual Laureate Lectures took place on October 27 as part of Gairdner Science Week. The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium was filled as the seven 2022 Canada Gairdner Award laureates and six Early Career Investigator (ECI) Award recipients took to the stage to present their award-winning research.
Offered in a hybrid format, the 2022 laureates took to the stage delivering fascinating presentations on their diverse areas of expertise. We learned about developing mRNA therapies from Drs. Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman and Pieter Cullis, whose pioneering work led to the foundational technologies for the highly effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. What makes a stem cell a stem cell? We now know thanks to Dr. John Dick. Dr. Deborah Cook explored patient-centred critical care research and Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta shared his research addressing child health and development in the first thousand days of life.
The event was chaired by Professor Leah Cowen, Vice-President of Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Toronto and Dr. Sonny Kohli, Head of Medical & Regulatory Affairs at Roche Canada.
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Related Winners
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Rodolphe Barrangou
PhD Associate Professor, Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences; Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Scholar in Probiotics Research North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA -
Zulfiqar Bhutta
MBBS, DCH, FRCP, FRCPCH, FCPS, FAAP, PhD Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health, Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, Senior Scientist The Hospital for Sick Children; Professor Department of Pediatrics, Nutritional Sciences, and Public Health, University of Toronto; Founding Director, Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health and Institute for Global Health and Development, The Aga Khan University South-Central Asia, East Africa, United Kingdom -
Mina J. Bissell
PhD Distinguished Senior Scientist, Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Faculty; Graduate Groups in Comparative Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Molecular Toxicology and Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, -
Deborah J. Cook
MD, FRCPC, MSc (Epid), FRSC, OC Distinguished University Professor of the Departments of Medicine, and of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact of McMaster University; Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada; Officer, Order of Canada; critical care physician of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton -
Pieter Cullis
PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia -
John E. Dick
PhD, FRS, FRSC Senior Scientist and Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Biology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN; University Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto -
Daniel J. Drucker
MD Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario -
Elaine Fuchs
Phd Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and Head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Cell Biology; The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA -
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Katalin Karikó
PhD Senior Vice President RNA Protein Replacement Therapies, BioNTech SE; Professor, University of Szeged; Adjunct Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania -
Roel Nusse
PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Developmental Biology; Member, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, School of Medicine. Virginia and Daniel K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute -
Stuart H. Orkin
MD David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Dana- Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital. -
Guy Rouleau
OQ MD PhD FRCPC FRSC Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital (The Neuro); Professor & Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University; Director of the Department of Neuroscience, McGill University Health Center -
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Drew Weissman
MD, PhD Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research; Director Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, Director, Vaccine Research, Infectious Diseases Division; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Guest Speakers
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Leah Cowen
Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives, University of Toronto -
Sonny Kohli
Physician in Internal Medicine and Critical Care and faculty, McMaster University; VP of Medical and Regulatory Affairs, Roche Canada Pharma
Related event
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2022 Canada Gairdner Awards Announcement
n Tuesday, April 5 at 10:00 am ET, Gairdner will announce the 2022 Canada Gairdner Award laureates. Join us as we celebrate this year’s laureates at an interactive virtual event.
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