Awards & Winners

2007 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2007 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 2007 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Dennis Slamon

(For the development of targeted therapy Herceptin against advanced breast cancer expressing the Her-2/Neu oncogene resulting in more effective therapy for breast cancer.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Thomas A. Steitz, Harry F. Noller

(For their studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Kim Nasmyth

(For his discovery of the mechanism of chromosome segregation during cell division, which has profound implications for our understanding of chromosome non-disjunction in human cancer and other genetic diseases.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Charles David Allis

(For his transforming studies demonstrating the link between chromatin structure and gene transcription and elucidating the mechanisms by which a variety of post-translational modifications of histones are involved in gene expression and genome maintenance and stability.)