Awards & Winners

2012 Canada Gairdner Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2012 Canada Gairdner Awards. Check awards winners of 2012 Canada Gairdner Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Lorne Babiuk

(For his extraordinary national and international leadership in vaccine development and research on human and veterinary infectious disease control.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Brian M. Greenwood

(For contributions to significantly reducing mortality in children due to meningitis and acute respiratory infection, and for contributions to malaria prevention.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Thomas Jessell

(For research in defining the genetic and molecular pathways leading to the complex development of the spinal cord, with implications for therapeutic applications.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Jeffrey V. Ravetch

(For his seminal work on identifying the Fc receptors of antibodies, which play a key role in the immune response, and for establishing their critical role in autoimmune diseases and cancer.)
Gairdner Foundation International Award

Michael Rosbash, Jeffrey C Hall, Michael W. Young

(For his pioneering discoveries concerning the biological clock responsible for circadian rhythms.)