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2010 Gairdner Award Winners Announced

This year’s Gairdner Award winners were announced this week.  The Gairdners are a fantastic Canadian contribution to the world of medical research, with seventy-three Gairdner winners over the past 50 years also becoming Nobel laureates.  Here is this year’s batch: The Gairdner International Award winners: William A. Catterall Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington Seattle, “for discovery of the [...]

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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