Awards & Winners

2002 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2002 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 2002 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Jean Weissenbach

(For his unique contributions in creating a detailed genetic map of the human genome.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Michael Waterman

(For his contributions to computational molecular biology that greatly facilitated sequencing of the human genome.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Craig Venter

(For his major advancement of whole genome sequencing and its applications to microbial, human and other genomes.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Maynard Olson

(For his original concepts, and for technological and experimental innovations that were critical for the sequencing of the mammalian genomes.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Bob Waterston, John Sulston, Eric Lander

(For their major seminal contributions to the sequencing of the human and other genomes.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Philip Palmer Green

(For his contributions to development of the computational tools essential for sequencing of the human genome.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

James D. Watson

(For his 50 years of unparalelled contributions to biology and medical science, and in particular for his critical international leadership during the creation of the Human Genome Project.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Francis Collins

(For his outstanding leadership in the Human Genome Project and particularly for the international effort to map and sequence the human and other genomes.)