Awards & Winners

1978 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1978 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1978 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Sydney Brenner

(In recognition of his highly original and conceptual contributions to molecular biology, and to the understanding of how genetic information is read and translated.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Jean-Pierre Changeux

(In recognition of his pioneering work in purifying and elucidating the mechanisms of the cholinergic receptor.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Donald S. Fredrickson

(For his contributions to our understanding of the genetic, biochemical and clinical aspects of the hyperlipoproteinemias.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Samuel O. Freedman, Phil Gold

(In recognition of their discovery of carcinoembryonic antigen, and for studies which elucidated its biological and clinical significance.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Edwin G. Krebs

(For elucidating fundamental biochemical mechanisms related to glycogen breakdown: pioneer work that has enhanced our knowledge of hormone action.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Elizabeth C. Miller, James A. Miller

(In recognition of their many important contributions to our understanding of how environmental chemicals, both naturally occurring and man made, induce cancer.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Lars Terenius

(For his development of radioreceptor methods, their application to opiates and the detection of an endogenous opiate-like substance in the nervous system.)