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Tag Archives: Gairdner Awards 2009

Gairdner Breakfast: Nobel and Gairdner Winners Discuss Biotech and Pharma’s Pipeline Problems

As part of the  Gairdner Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebrations this week, there was a breakfast panel this morning with a lot of brainpower (even for MaRS). Cal Stiller lead a discussion by David Baltimore, Phillip Sharp and Corey Goodman who between them have three Gairdner awards and two Nobel prizes. These top-notch scientists also have truly impressive [...]

2009 Gairdner Award Winners Announced

This year’s Gairdner International Award winners: Shinya Yamanaka, for making pluripotent stem cells from epidermal somatic tissue; Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University and Richard Losick of Harvard University for their research on how bacteria grow, divide or become dormant; and Kazutoshi Mori of Kyoto University and Peter Walter of the University of California for their [...]

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