Awards & Winners

2011 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2011 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 2011 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Adrian Bird, Howard Cedar, Aharon Razin

(For their pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Jules A. Hoffmann

(For his ground-breaking discovery of the family of Toll like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Shizuo Akira

(For his ground-breaking discovery of Toll like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Robert Edward Black

(For his significant contributions to improving child survival, particularly his critical clinical and epidemiological studies to reduce childhood diarrheal deaths.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Michael R. Hayden

(For his outstanding national and international leadership in medical genetics, entrepreneurship and humanitarianism.)