Canada Gairdner International Award

The Canada Gairdner International Award is a science award in the field of medical research given by the Canadian Gairdner Foundation in Toronto . It has been presented annually since 1959 to several winners for outstanding discoveries or contributions in the medical sciences.

In 2009 the award was given its current name, previously it was named Gairdner Foundation International Award . Since that year the award has been endowed with a purse of 100,000 Canadian dollars . The prize, designed in the form of a sculpture , is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of biomedicine.

As of March 2020, one person was awarded the prize 354 times. Michael Houghton refused acceptance in 2013, Frederick Sanger received the award twice, in 1971 and 1979, so there are 352 winners. As of October 2019, 95 recipients of the Gairdner Foundation International Award and thus more than a quarter of all award winners later also received a Nobel Prize . James Watson received a Gairdner Award in 2002, 40 years after his Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Frederick Sanger received one of his two Nobel Prizes (1958) before his two Gairdner Awards, the others (1980) after.

Award winners

The year the Nobel Prize was awarded is shown in brackets.

• 1959: Alfred Blalock , Wilfred Gordon Bigelow , William DM Paton , Charles Ragan , Harry M. Rose , Eleanor Zaimis
• 1960: Joshua H. Burn , John Heysham Gibbon , William F. Hamilton , John McMichael , Karl Friedrich Meyer , Arnold Rice Rich
• 1961: Russell Brock , Alan C. Burton , Ulf von Euler (Nobel Prize 1970), Alexander B. Gutman , Jonas H. Kellgren
• 1962: Albert Coons , Clarence Crafoord , Francis Crick (1962), Henry G. Kunkel , Stanley J. Sarnoff
• 1963: Murray L. Barr , Eric GL Bywaters , Jacques Genest , Pierre Grabar , Clarence Walton Lillehei , Irvine H. Page
• 1964: Seymour Benzer , Karl H. Beyer Jr., Deborah Doniach , Ivan Roitt , Gordon DW Murray , Keith R. Porter
• 1965: Jerome W. Conn , Robert Royston Amos Coombs , Charles E. Dent , Charles Leblond , Daniel J. McCarty , F. Horace Smirk
• 1966: Geoffrey S. Dawes , Charles B. Huggins (1966), Willem Kolff , Luis Federico Leloir (1970), Jacques Miller , Rodney R. Porter (1972), Jan Gösta Waldenström
• 1967: Christian de Duve (1974), Marshall Nirenberg (1968), George E. Palade (1974), Julius Axelrod (1970), Harold Copp , Iain MacIntyre , Peter J. Moloney , Fraser Mustard , Sidney Udenfriend
• 1968: Bruce Chown , James L. Gowans , George Herbert Hitchings (1988), Jacques Oudin , J. Edwin Seegmiller
• 1969: Frank J. Dixon , Ernest McCulloch , John P. Merrill , Robert B. Salter , Belding Scribner , Mason Sones , Earl Wilbur Sutherland (1971), James Till
• 1970: Vincent P. Dole , Richard Doll , Robert A. Good , Niels Kaj Jerne (1984), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1984)
• 1971: Solomon Aaron Berson , Charles Best , Rachmiel Levine , Frederick Sanger (1958, 1980), Donald F. Steiner , Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1977)
• 1972: Sune Bergström (1982), Britton Chance , Oleh Hornykiewicz , Robert Russell Race , Ruth Sanger
• 1973: Roscoe O. Brady , Denis Parsons Burkitt , John Charnley , Kimishige Ishizaka , Teruko Ishizaka , Harold Johns
• 1974: David Baltimore (1975), Hector F. DeLuca , Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (1977), Hans J. Müller-Eberhard , Juda H. Quastel , Andrew Victor Schally (1977), Howard M. Temin (1975)
• 1975: Ernest Beutler , Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1976), Henri G. Hers , Hugh Esmor Huxley , John D. Keith , William T. Mustard
• 1976: Thomas R. Dawber , Godfrey Hounsfield (1979), William B. Kannel , Eugene Kennedy , George Klein , George Davis Snell (1980)
• 1977: K. Frank Austen , Cyril Clarke , Jean Dausset (1980), Henry Friesen , Victor Almon McKusick
• 1978: Sydney Brenner (2002), Jean-Pierre Changeux , Donald S. Fredrickson , Samuel O. Freedman , Phil Gold , Edwin Gerhard Krebs (1992), Elizabeth C. Miller , James A. Miller , Lars Terenius
• 1979: James Whyte Black (1988), George F. Cahill Jr. , Walter Gilbert (1980), Elwood V. Jensen , Frederick Sanger (1958, 1980), Charles Scriver
• 1980: Paul Berg (1980), Irving B. Fritz , Har Gobind Khorana (1968), Efraim Racker , Jesse Roth , Michael Sela
• 1981: Michael Stuart Brown (1985), Wai Yiu Cheung , Joseph Leonard Goldstein (1985), Georges JF Köhler (1984), César Milstein (1984), Elizabeth F. Neufeld , Saul Roseman , Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (1982), Jerry H .-C. Wang
• 1982: Gilbert Ashwell , Günter Blobel (1999), Arvid Carlsson (2000), Paul Janssen , Manfred M. Mayer
• 1983: Bruce Ames , Gerald D. Aurbach , John A. Clements , Richard K. Gershon , Donald Henderson , Susumu Tonegawa (1987)
• 1984: John Michael Bishop (1989), Alfred Goodman Gilman (1994), Yuet Wai Kan , Kresimir Krnjevic , Robert Laing Noble , Martin Rodbell (1994), Harold Elliot Varmus (1989)
• 1985: Stanley Cohen (1986), Paul Christian Lauterbur (2003), Raymond U. Lemieux , Mary F. Lyon , Mark Ptashne , Charles Yanofsky
• 1986: Adolfo J. de Bold , Jean-François Borel , James E. Darnell , Peter Doherty (1996), T. Geoffrey Flynn , Phillip Allen Sharp (1993), Michael Smith (1993), Harald Sonnenberg , Rolf Zinkernagel (1996)
• 1987: René Favaloro , Robert Charles Gallo , Walter Gehring , Eric Kandel (2000), Edward B. Lewis (1995), Luc Montagnier (2008), Michael Rossmann
• 1988: Albert J. Aguayo , Michael Berridge , Thomas R. Cech (1989), Michael Anthony Epstein , Robert Lefkowitz (2012), Yasutomi Nishizuka
• 1989: Mark M. Davis , Jean-Marie Ghuysen , Louis M. Kunkel , Tak W. Mak , Erwin Neher (1990), Bert Sakmann (1990), Ronald G. Worton
• 1990: Francis Collins , Victor Ling , John R. Riordan , Oliver Smithies (2007), Edwin Southern , Edward Donnall Thomas (1990), Lap-Chee Tsui
• 1991: Sydney Brenner (2002), Judah Folkman , Robert Francis Furchgott (1998), David H. MacLennan , Kary Mullis (1993), John E. Sulston (2002)
• 1992: Leland H. Hartwell (2001), Yoshio Masui , Paul Nurse (2001), Richard Peto , Bert Vogelstein , Robert Allan Weinberg
• 1993: Mario Capecchi (2007), Alvan R. Feinstein , Stanley Prusiner (1997), Oliver Smithies (2007), Michel Ter-Pogossian
• 1994: Pamela J. Bjorkman , Tony Hunter , Donald Metcalf , Anthony Pawson , Don Craig Wiley
• 1995: Bruce Alberts , Arthur Kornberg (1959), Roger Tsien (2008)
• 1996: Robert Langer , Barry Marshall (2005), Janet Rowley , James Rothman (2013), Randy Schekman (2013)
• 1997: Corey Goodman , Richard O. Hynes , Alfred G. Knudson , Erkki Ruoslahti
• 1998: Giuseppe Attardi , Elizabeth Blackburn (2009), Carol W. Greider (2009), Walter Neupert , Gottfried Schatz
• 1999: Avram Hershko (2004), H. Robert Horvitz (2002), Alexander Varshavsky , Andrew Wyllie
• 2000: Jack Hirsh , Roger D. Kornberg (2006), Robert G. Roeder , Alain Townsend , Emil Unanue
• 2001: Clay Armstrong , Bertil Hille , Roderick MacKinnon (2002), Marc Kirschner
• 2002: Francis Collins (Award of Merit), Philip P. Green , Eric Lander , Maynard V. Olson , John E. Sulston (2002), Craig Venter , Michael Waterman , Robert Waterston , James Watson (Award of Merit) (1962) , Jean Weissenbach
• 2003: Richard Axel (2004), Linda B. Buck (2004), Wayne A. Hendrickson , Seiji Ogawa , Ralph M. Steinman (2011)
• 2004: Seymour Benzer , R. John Ellis , Franz-Ulrich Hartl , Arthur Horwich , George Sachs
• 2005: Douglas Coleman , Andrew Z. Fire (2006), Jeffrey M. Friedman , Craig Mello (2006), Brenda Milner , Endel Tulving
• 2006: Ralph L. Brinster , Ronald M. Evans , Alan Hall , Thomas D. Pollard , Joan Steitz
• 2007: C. David Allis , Kim Nasmyth , Harry Noller , Dennis J. Slamon , Thomas A. Steitz (2009)
• 2008: Victor Ambros , Harald zur Hausen (2008), Gary Ruvkun , Nahum Sonenberg , Samuel Weiss
• 2009: Richard Losick , Kazutoshi Mori , Lucy Shapiro , Peter Walter , Shinya Yamanaka (2012)
• 2010: William A. Catterall , Pierre Chambon , William G. Kaelin Jr. (2019), Peter J. Ratcliffe (2019), Gregg L. Semenza (2019)
• 2011: Adrian Peter Bird , Howard Cedar , Aharon Razin , Jules A. Hoffmann (2011), Shizuo Akira
• 2012: Jeffrey Hall (2017), Michael Rosbash (2017), Michael W. Young (2017), Thomas Jessell , Jeffrey Ravetch
• 2013: Harvey J. Alter , Daniel W. Bradley , Michael Houghton (acceptance rejected), Stephen Joseph Elledge , Gregory Winter
• 2014: James P. Allison (2018), Titia de Lange , Marc Feldmann , Ravinder Nath Maini , Harold Fisher Dvorak , Napoleone Ferrara
• 2015: Lewis C. Cantley , Michael N. Hall , Lynne E. Maquat , Yoshinori Ohsumi (2016), Shimon Sakaguchi
• 2016: Feng Zhang , Jennifer Doudna , Emmanuelle Charpentier , Philippe Horvath , Rodolphe Barrangou
• 2017: Akira Endō , David Julius , Lewis E. Kay , Rino Rappuoli , Huda Zoghbi
• 2018: Azim Surani , Davor Solter , Edward Boyden , Karl Deisseroth , Peter Hegemann
• 2019: John Diffley , Ronald Vale , Timothy A. Springer , Bruce Stillman , Susan Band Horwitz
• 2020: Masatoshi Takeichi , Rolf Kemler , Roel Nusse , Mina J. Bissell , Elaine Fuchs

See also

• Category "Winner of the Canada Gairdner International Award "

Web links

• The Gairdner Foundation - Website of the Gairdner Foundation (English)
• All Gairdner Winners - List of Prize Winners

1. ^ Canadian declines prestigious Gairdner award for medical research. CBC / Radio-Canada (cbc.ca); Retrieved March 20, 2013