Awards & Winners

1979 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1979 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1979 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Claude Fortier

(In recognition of his contributions to Canadian medicine as a scientist, teacher and scientific advisor to goovernments.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Charles Scriver

(In recognition of his contribution to understanding of genetic disease and, in particular, the detection of genetically-determined disease in large population groups, and the development of treatment programs for these disorders.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Frederick Sanger

(In recognition of his development of methods for the sequencing of DNA and of his contributions to new concepts of gene structure.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Elwood V. Jensen

(In recognition of his discovery of steroid receptors which has led to the elucidation of the action of steroid hormones and to the development of tests guiding endocrine treatment for cancer of the breast.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Walter Gilbert

(In recognition of his contributions to our understanding of gene replication and regulation, and of the development of methods for sequencing of DNA and their application to studies of gene organization.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

George F. Cahill, Jr.

(In recognition of his contributions to our understanding of the interrelationships of hormones and body fuels in differing nutritional states of man.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

James Black

(In recognition of his role in the identification of amine receptors and in the development of the receptor-blocking drugs, Propranolol and Cimetidine.)