James Till - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	25-August-1931
Place of Birth	Lloydminster (Canada, Central Alberta, Division No. 10, Alberta)
Nationality	Canada
James Edgar Till, OC, O.Ont, FRSC is a University of Toronto biophysicist, best known for demonstrating â€“ with Ernest McCulloch â€“ the existence of stem cells.

Awards by James Till

Check all the awards nominated and won by James Till.

2005

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(Ernest McCulloch and James Till for ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell \u2014 the blood-forming stem cell \u2014 which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells.)

1969

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(In recognition of their development of the spleen colony technique for measuring the capacity of primitive normal and neoplastic cells to multiply and differentiate in the body. This technique has been applied by them and their colleagues, and by many others, to gain important knowledge of the normal formation of blood cells, the behaviour of leukemic cells and methods of treating leukemia, and other aspects of cell biology.)

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