Awards & Winners

1984 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1984 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1984 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Martin Rodbell, Alfred G. Gilman

(For elucidating the mechanism by which peptide hormones act across cell membranes to influence cell function.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Yuet Wai Kan

(For his discovery of DNA polymorphism in sickle cell disease and thalassemia and its application to the antenatal diagnosis of human disease.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Robert Noble

(For his discovery of the important anticancer drug Vinblastine.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Kresimir Krnjevic

(For his research on the mechanisms of brain cell communication.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Harold E. Varmus, J. Michael Bishop

(For research on viral and cellular oncogenes that extends our understanding of the molecular basis of human cancer.)