Awards & Winners

1996 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1996 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 1996 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Randy Schekman, James Rothman

(For the identification of proteins involved in intracellular traffic and vesicle fusion.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Janet Rowley

(For establishing the critical importance of chromosomal rearrangement as a specific cause of human cancer and for a lifetime of research to identify the genes that are rearranged to cause leukemia and lymphoma.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Barry Marshall

(For the discovery of the role of Helicobacter Pylori as a cause of peptic ulcer disease and the benefit that patients receive from its eradication.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Robert S. Langer

(For discoveries that led to the development of controlled drug release systems.)