This year, the Willowdale, Ontario-based organization will honor five American researchers in the fields of gene targeting, clinical epidemiology, brain functioning, and cerebral scanning with $30,000 cash prizes. The awards will be presented in Toronto on October 22 by Rose Wolfe, chancellor of the University of Toronto. The ceremony, including brief lectures from the winners describing their research, is held at the University of Toronto each year.
Since its inception in 1957, the Gairdner Foundation has honored 230 scientists. Forty of these have subsequently won the Nobel Prize. The most recent Gairdner/Nobel winners are German biologist Bert Sakmann, who won the Gairdner in 1989 and the Nobel in 1991; University of Washington biochemist Edwin G. Krebs, who won the Gairdner in 1978 and the Nobel in 1992; and University of California, San Francisco virologist Michael Bishop, who won the Gairdner in 1984 and the Nobel in 1989.
Among this year's ...
