Canada Gairdner Wightman Award
The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award is a science prize awarded annually in Toronto by the Canadian Gairdner Foundation . It is awarded to Canadians who have made a special contribution to the biomedical sciences, the management of relevant institutions, the fight against diseases or the development of Canadian and international biomedicine. The award is endowed with 100,000 CAD (as of 2011).
The first winner in 1976 was Keith JR Wightman . The award was subsequently named after him.
Award winners
- 1976 Keith JR Wightman
- 1979 Claude Fortier
- 1981 Louis Siminovitch
- 1984 Douglas G. Cameron
- 1986 Aser Rothstein
- 1989 Lloyd D. MacLean
- 1992 John R. Evans
- 1999 Charles Hollenberg , Peter Macklem
- 2001 Henry Friesen
- 2006 Allan R. Ronald
- 2008 Alan Bernstein
- 2009 David Sackett
- 2010 Calvin Stiller
- 2011 Michael R. Hayden
- 2012 Lorne Babiuk
- 2013 James C. Hogg
- 2014 Salim Yusuf
- 2015 Janet Rossant
- 2016 Frank Plummer
- 2017 Antoine M. Hakim
- 2018 Frances A. Shepherd
- 2019 Connie Jean Eaves
- 2020 Guy Rouleau
Web links
- Canada Gairdner Wightman Award and Canada Gairdner Wightman Awardees at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org)