2008 Awardees

Victor Ambros PhD

Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Professor Harald zur Hausen, DSc MD

Professor Emeritus and recent Chairman and Scientific Director, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

Dr. Gary Ruvkun, PhD

Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Dr. Nahum Sonenberg, PhD

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC

Dr. Samuel Weiss, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy and Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

2008 Wightman Award

Dr. Alan Bernstein, OC, PhD

Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, New York, N.Y.

News and Events 

2008 Gairdner Awardees Lecture Webcast
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Sam Weiss: The Assault on Science by Steve Paikin
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Vaccine Development for Cancer and Infectious Diseases Video Gallery
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Remarks by McGill Principal Heather Munroe Blum at the 2008 Gairdner Awards Dinner
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2008 Gairdner International Awards dinner Photo Gallery
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2008 Gairdner Awardee Globe and Mail article on "HPV and cancer, down to a science"
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Gairdner Laureate, Roger Y. Tsien (1995) receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Gairdner Laureates, Harald zur Hausen (2008) and Luc Montagnier (1987) receive Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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