Awards & Winners

1981 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1981 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1981 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Bengt I. Samuelsson

(For his identification of thromboxanes and leukotrienes, and for his elucidation of their mechanism of action.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Louis Siminovitch

(In recognition of his unique contributions to Canadian medicine as a geneticist of outstanding ability, as a wise and effective advisor to Government in the area of science policy, and as a leader of the Canadian academic community.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Saul Roseman

(In recognition of his pioneering studies on the biosynthesis of complex carbohydrates, on their role in cell-cell interactions, and on the transport of sugars into cells.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Elizabeth F. Neufeld

(In recognition of her elucidation of the enzyme defects in some mucopolysaccharide storage diseases.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

César Milstein, Georges J. F. Köhler

(In recognition of their application of a cell-fusion technique to form immortal cell lines which produce antibodies of a single specificity.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Jerry H-C. Wang, Wai Yiu Cheung

(For their discovery of calmodulin.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Joseph L. Goldstein, Michael Stuart Brown

(For their discovery of the role of receptor-mediated uptake of lipoproteins in the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.)