Awards & Winners

1991 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1991 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1991 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

John Sulston

(For establishing C. elegans as a model for studying genetic control of development.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Judah Folkman

(For his contributions to our understanding of the process of angiogenesis.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Robert F. Furchgott

(For his discovery and characterization of endothelial relaxing factor.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

David MacLennan

(For his contributions to our understanding of muscle membranes and ion transport.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Kary Mullis

(For his discovery of the polymerase chain reaction.)