Awards & Winners

2008 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2008 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 2008 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun

(For the discovery and characterization of micro RNA's, important in the regulation of gene function.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Nahum Sonenberg

(For his pioneering discoveries in cellular translation of genetic information.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Samuel Weiss

(For his seminal discovery of adult neural stem cells in the mammalian brain and its importance in nerve cell regeneration.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Harald zur Hausen

(For the discovery of the causative role of papilloma viruses in cancer of the cervix which led to the development of a successful HPV vaccine.)