Awards & Winners

Ernest McCulloch

Date of Birth 27-April-1926
Place of Birth Toronto
(Ontario, Canada)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, Dr. Ernest McCulloch
Profession Scientist, Physician, Educator
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.

Awards by Ernest McCulloch

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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.)