Awards & Winners

2006 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2006 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 2006 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Ralph L. Brinster

(For his pioneering discoveries in germ line modifications in mammals.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Joan A. Steitz

(For her discovery of the reactivity of autoimmune sera with ribonucleoprotein particles and elucidation of the roles of small nuclear RNAs in messenger RNA processing.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Thomas D. Pollard, Alan Hall

(For their discoveries related to understanding the cytoskeleton of the cell and the basis of cell mobility and its relevance to human disease.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Ronald M. Evans

(For his seminal studies defining new classes of nuclear hormone receptors and elucidating their role in energy metabolism and endocrine-related disease.)