Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award
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The Gairdner Foundation
Wightman Award is given from time to time to a Canadian
who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science. 2009 it has been renamed to Canada Gairdner Wightman Award. Previous winners are:
Gairdner Foundation
The Gairdner Foundation 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...
Wightman Award is given from time to time to a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science. 2009 it has been renamed to Canada Gairdner Wightman Award. Previous winners are:
- 1976 Keith J.R. Wightman
- 1979 Claude FortierClaude FortierClaude Fortier, was a Canadian physiologist and expert on the pituitary gland.From 1974 to 1975, he was the President of the Royal Society of Canada.-Honours:* In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada....
- 1981 Louis SiminovitchLouis SiminovitchLouis Siminovitch, CC is a Canadian molecular biologist. He was a pioneer in human genetics, researcher into the genetic basis of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, and helped establish Ontario programs exploring genetic roots of cancer.Born in Montreal, Quebec to parents who had emigrated...
- 1984 Douglas G. Cameron
- 1986 Aser Rothstein
- 1989 Lloyd D. MacLean
- 1992 John Robert EvansJohn Robert EvansJohn Robert Evans, is a Canadian pediatrician, academic, businessperson, and civic leader.After graduating from the University of Toronto Schools, he received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1952 and was a Rhodes Scholar...
- 1999 Charles HollenbergCharles HollenbergCharles H. Hollenberg, was a Canadian physician, educator and researcher.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1950 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1955 from the University of Manitoba. In 1960, he joined the Department of Medicine at McGill University...
, Peter Macklem - 2001 Henry FriesenHenry FriesenHenry George Friesen, is a Canadian endocrinologist, a distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba and the discoverer of prolactin, a hormone which stimulates lactation in mammary glands....
- 2006 Allan R. Ronald
- 2008 Alan BernsteinAlan BernsteinAlan Bernstein, is the inaugural executive director of the , an alliance of independent organizations around the world dedicated to accelerating the development of a preventive HIV vaccine.As Executive Director, Dr...
- 2009 David SackettDavid SackettDavid Lawrence Sackett, OC, FRSC is a Canadian medical doctor and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine. He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University, and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine...
- 2010 Calvin Stiller
- 2011 Michael R. HaydenMichael R. HaydenMichael Hayden, MB ChB PhD FRCP FRSC OBC CM is a Canadian physician scientist. A Killam professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Hayden is best known for his research in Huntington disease...