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The Interview with Sam Weiss, 2008 Gairdner International Award Winner. Using your head: Gairdner Award winner Dr. Sam Weiss and his discovery that the adult brain produces stem cells to fix itself.

To access the interview, click on URL: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoutils/globalfiles/VideoPop.cfm?spot_id=5652&sitefolder=theagenda

To find out more about how Sam Weiss came to know of his Gairdner International Award win, click on URL:http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoutils/globalfiles/VideoPop.cfm?spot_id=5745&sitefolder=thea [...] read more »

When politics meets public health

By Linda Quattrin, Director of Communications @ MaRS

Everyone loves an underdog. And in science, when your theories start out being dismissed by one’s esteemed colleagues, it must be particularly sweet to prove the mainstream wrong with a Nobel Prize.

Such is the story of German virologist Dr. Harald zur Hausen, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that human papilloma viruses cause cervical cancer.

Dr. zur Hausen, who also earned the 2008 Gairdner Prize, delivered the Gairdner Foundation’s [...] read more »

By HELEN BRANSWELL, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tue, October 21, 2008

The trepidation and distrust HPV vaccines have faced from some quarters are a disappointment to the scientist whose discovery of the link between human papillomaviruses and cervical cancer laid the groundwork for the vaccines.

Dr. Harald zur Hausen, co-winner of this year's Nobel prize for medicine, admitted yesterday that the negative reaction of some parents in North America and Europe to the vaccines perturbs him.

"It is a little bit dismaying," said zur Hausen, who has no financial [...] read more »

More than 30 years ago, Harald zur Hausen's theory was dismissed as nonsense. Today, he's the winner of the two highest awards in medicine. The acclaimed scientist sits down with The Globe's André Picard to discuss his work and achievements

ANDRÉ PICARD
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
October 21, 2008

Earlier this month, Dr. Harald zur Hausen of the German Cancer Research [...] read more »

The Gairdner Foundation expresses its sadness on the death of Ernest Beutler on October 5, 2008, of San Diego, California. Dr. Beutler received a Gairdner International Award in 1975.  He was one of the pioneers who laid the basis for hematology for many years. He established that by looking very carefully at the biochemistry of blood cells, you can tell a great deal about why they aren't behaving as they should. He made key discoveries in bone marrow transplantation for fighting cancer; the role of the X-chromosome in women; helped discover G6PD deficiency; improved the diagnosis and treatment [...] read more »

The Gairdner Foundation expresses its sadness on the death of George Palade on October 7, 2008, of Del Mar, California. Beginning in the 1940s he discovered the ribosome, the cell's protein-making factory, and helped explain the way proteins are transposrted out of the [...] read more »

 

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this morning that the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Roger Y. Tsien, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Co-winners of the Nobel were  Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory, and Martin Chalfie of Columbia University. The three were honored for "the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP."

According to the Royal Swedish Academy, this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewards the initial discovery of GFP and a series of important developments [...] read more »

The Gairdner Foundation congratulates Dr. Harald zur Hausen from Germany for being awarded  the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of "Human papilloma virus causing cervical cancer". Professor zur Hausen is a 2008 Gairdner Laureate.

Congratulations to Professor Luc Montagnier of Paris who shares  the Nobel Prize in [...] read more »

The Kyoto Award is an international award honoring individuals who advance civilization through significant scientific, cultural, and spiritual achievements. To date, it has been presented to 74 individuals working in the basic sciences, advanced technology, and arts or philosophy.

This year, the Basic Sciences prize [...] read more »

Awardees include three Canadians.

73 Gairdner Awardees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.

HPV virus, microRNAs, stem cells and protein synthesis the subjects of breakthrough research.

Presentation by 2008 Gairdner Awardees, Dr Victor Ambros of Boston [...] read more »