Awards & Winners

2003 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2003 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 2003 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Ralph M. Steinman

(For his discovery and characterization of the role of the dendritic cell, a pivotal phagocytic cell in the immune system and essential to the development of vaccines.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Seiji Ogawa

(For his development of blood oxygenation dependent imaging which has revolutionized the field of functional magnetic resource imaging (fMRI), and used extensively to study brain function.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Wayne Hendrickson

(For contributions to macromolecular crystallography, in the development of robust methods of phasing and refinement, and in the determination of complex and biologically important structures.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Linda B. Buck

(For their discovery of the olfactory receptors and the clarification of how these receptors transfer olfactory signals to the brain.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Richard Axel

(For their discovery of olfactory receptors and the clarification of how these receptors transfer olfactory signals to the brain.)