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Canada Gairdner Wightman Award
The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award is annually awarded by the Gairdner Foundation to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of medicine and medical science. Award winners SourceGairdner- Past Recipients{{columns-list, colwidth=30em, *1976 Keith J.R. Wightman *1979 Claude Fortier *1981 Louis Siminovitch *1984 Douglas G. Cameron *1986 Aser Rothstein *1989 Lloyd D. MacLean *1992 John Robert 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 A. Babiuk *2013 James C. Hogg *2014 Salim Yusuf *2015 Janet Rossant *2016 Frank Plummer *2017 Antoine M Hakim *2018 Frances Alice Shepherd *2019 Connie Jean Eaves *2020 Guy A. Rouleau *2021 Elizabeth Eisenhauer See also * Gairdner Foundation * Gairdner Foundation Global Health Award * Gairdner Foundation International Award * List of medicine awards This list of medicine ...
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Gairdner Foundation
The Gairdner Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to the recognition of outstanding achievements in biomedical research worldwide. It was created in 1957 by James Arthur Gairdner to recognize and reward the achievements of medical researchers whose work contributes significantly to improving the quality of human life. Since the first awards were made in 1959, the Gairdner Awards have become Canada's most prestigious medical awards, recognizing and celebrating the research of the world’s best and brightest biomedical researchers. Since 1959, more than 390 Canada Gairdner Awards have been given to scientists from 35 countries; of these recipients, 95 have subsequently gone on to win a Nobel Prize. History The Gairdner Foundation was created in 1957 by James Arthur Gairdner (1893-1971). Known as Big Jim to his grandchildren, he was, indeed, a larger than life figure. Described by his friends as a talented maverick and visionary, Gairdner was a colorful personality wh ...
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Michael R
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List Of Medicine Awards
This list of medicine awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to medicine, the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The list is organized by region and country of the organization giving the award, but the awards may be available to people from around the world. International Americas Asia Europe United Kingdom Oceania See also * Lists of awards * Lists of science and technology awards * List of biomedical science awards * List of psychology awards * Competitions and prizes in biotechnology References {{Science and technology awards Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...
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Gairdner Foundation International Award
The Canada Gairdner International Award is given annually by the Gairdner Foundation at a special dinner to five individuals for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science. Receipt of the Gairdner is traditionally considered a precursor to winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine; as of 2020, 95 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to prior Gairdner recipients. Canada Gairdner International Awards are given annually in the amount of $100,000 (each) payable in Canadian funds and can be awarded to residents of any country in the world. A joint award may be given for the same discovery or contribution to medical science, but in that case each awardee receives a full prize. Past winners *1959 Alfred Blalock, , Harry M. Rose, William D.M. Paton, Eleanor Zaimis, Wilfred G. Bigelow *1960 Joshua Harold Burn, John H. Gibbon Jr., William F. Hamilton, John McMichael, Karl Meyer, Arnold Rice Rich *1961 Russell Brock, Alan C. Burton, Alexander B. Gutman, Jonas H. Kellgren ...
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The Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
The John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is given by the Gairdner Foundation to recognize the world's top scientists who have made outstanding achievements in Global Health Research. Since its inception, the Global Health Award has grown significantly to become one of the world's most prestigious awards recognizing excellence in global health research. Previous winners *2009: Nubia Muñoz *2010: Nicholas J. White *2011: Robert Edward Black *2012: Brian M. Greenwood *2013: King K. Holmes *2014: Satoshi Ōmura, 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner. *2015: Peter Piot *2016: Anthony Fauci *2017: Cesar Victora *2018: Alan Lopez, Christopher J.L. Murray *2019: Vikram Patel *2020: Salim S. Abdool Karim, Quarraisha Abdool Karim *2021: Yi Guan, Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris *2022: Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta References See also * Gairdner Foundation International Award * Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award * Gairdner Foundation The Gairdner Foundation is a non- ...
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer
Elizabeth Eisenhauer is a Canadian oncologist who has spent a large portion of her career undertaking phase I and II trials of novel cancer therapies through her role as Director of the Investigational New Drug Program in the Canadian Cancer Trials Group. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Queen's University and was trained in internal medicine and hematology, obtaining fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Eisenhauer is an Emerita professor in the Department of Oncology at Queen's University, and was Department Head from 2012 to 2017. She has served on the board of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, National Cancer Institute of Canada (as its President), the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, and the Canadian Cancer Society. In 2012, she was awarded with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for “her tremendous commitment to the advancement of cancer therapy, supportive care and preventio ...
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Guy A
Guy or GUY may refer to: Personal names * Guy (given name) * Guy (surname) * That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart Places * Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Guy, Arkansas, US, a city * Guy, Indiana, US, an unincorporated community * Guy, Kentucky, US, an unincorporated community * Guy, Texas, US, an unincorporated community * Guy Street, Montreal, Canada Art and entertainment Films * ''Guy'' (1997 film) (American, starring Vincent D'Onofrio) * ''Guy'' (2018 film) (French, starring Alex Lutz) * '' That Guy... Who Was in That Thing'' (2012), a documentary film * Free Guy (2021), an action comedy film Music * ''Guy'' (album), debut studio album of Guy (band) 1988 * Guy (band), an American R&B group * "G.U.Y.", a 2014 song by Lady Gaga from the album ''Artpop'' Transport * Guy (sailing), rope to control a spinnaker on a sailboat * Air Guyane Express, ICAO code GUY * Guy Motors, a former British bus and truck builder * ''Guy'' (ship, 1933), se ...
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Connie Eaves
Connie Jean Eaves, CorrFRSE (née Constance Halperin; born May 22, 1944), is a Canadian biologist with significant contributions to cancer and stem cell research. Eaves is a professor generics of genetics at the University of British Columbia and is also the co-founder with Allen C Eaves of Terry Fox Laboratory (Vancouver, Canada). Education and career In high school, Eaves was interested in becoming a physician but later decided to pursue into research due to gender discrimination in medical school acceptance rates. Eaves received a BA in Biology and Chemistry and in 1964 and 1966 an MSc in Biology (Genetics) working on oncogenic viruses from Queen's University. She then pursued doctoral training at the Paterson Laboratories of the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute and obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester in Great Britain in 1969. She did postdoctoral work on hematopoiesis at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada, as a member of the researc ...
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Frances Alice Shepherd
Frances Alice Shepherd, is a Canadian oncologist recognized for her research on lung cancer and her contributions to the design, development, and conduct of clinical trials. She is currently a senior staff physician at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, where she has held the Scott Taylor Chair in Lung Cancer Research since 2001, and she is a full professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Contributions Shepherd has been a co-investigator or principal investigator in over 100 clinical trials and authored more than 450 peer-reviewed publications and 35 book chapters. She is on the editorial board of several journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, as well as on numerous lung cancer advisory boards and data and safety monitoring boards for international lung cancer trials. She has mentored more than 30 post-doctoral research fellows. Her past work includes serving as President of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, a mem ...
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Antoine Hakim
Antoine M. Hakim (born April 30, 1942) is a Canadian engineer and physician. He first trained as a chemical engineer and worked for Syncrude in Alberta. Wishing to change careers, Hakim taught school for a short time in Montreal. He then earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and went on to study medicine at Albany Medical College. He completed his residency at the Montreal Neurological Institute and later became a professor at McGill University. In 1992, he became chair of the Neurology department and director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the University of Ottawa. From 1992 to 2000, he was head of the Neurology division at The Ottawa Hospital. When Hakim began his research, strokes were widely regarded as unpreventable and available treatments were limited. By gaining a better understanding of the process of a stroke and the nature of the damage to the brain, he was able to identify possible treatments and, later, how ...
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Frank Plummer
Francis Allan Plummer (2 December 1952 – 4 February 2020) was a Canadian scientist, academic and HIV/AIDS researcher. He was "a recognized specialist in infectious diseases whose work influenced public health policy in Canada and abroad". He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Microbiology at the University of Manitoba and Scientific Director General, National Microbiology Laboratory. Life and career Plummer was born in Winnipeg. He studied medicine at the University of Manitoba, where he specialized in infectious diseases. In 1980, he went to Kenya in response to a request from the University of Nairobi for assistance in managing an outbreak of chancroid. While there, in 1982 he began studying AIDS transmission in 1982, and beginning in 1984 was part of a research collaboration in Nairobi between the University of Manitoba and the University of Nairobi studying sexually transmitted infections. His research described the heterosexual epidemiology of HIV, ...
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Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant, (born 13 July 1950) is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is a world renowned leader in developmental biology. Her current research interests focus on stem cells, molecular genetics, and developmental biology. Specifically, she uses cellular and genetic manipulation techniques to study how genes control both normal and abnormal development of early mouse embryos. Rossant has discovered information on embryo development, how multiple types of stem cells are established, and the mechanisms by which genes control development. In 1998, her work helped lead to the discovery of the trophoblast stem cell, which has assisted in showing how congenital anomalies in the heart, blood vessels, and placenta can occur. She is currently the President and Science Director at Gairdner, a senior scientist in the Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program, the chief of research at the Hospital ...
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