Awards & Winners

1988 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1988 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1988 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Yasutomi Nishizuka

(For his work in establishing the roles of inositol trisphosphate, diacylglycerol, calcium and protein kinase C during signal transduction and in growth and differentiation.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Robert Lefkowitz

(For contributions to our understanding of the structure and regulation of adrenergic receptors.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Michael A. Epstein

(For the identification of the Epstein-Barr virus.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Thomas Cech

(For the discovery that some forms of RNA have catalytic properties.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Michael Berridge

(For his work in establishing the roles of inositol trisphosphate, diacylglycerol, calcium and protein kinase C during signal transduction and in growth and differentiation.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Albert Aguayo

(For the discovery that regrowth and restoration of neural connections is possible in the injured adult mammalian central nervous system.)