Canada Gairdner International Award 1996: Winners

Recipients

1. Barry J. Marshall

   Biology

   For the discovery of the role of Helicobacter Pylori as a cause of peptic ulcer disease and the benefit that patients receive from its eradication.

2. James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman

   Biology

   For the identification of proteins involved in intracellular traffic and vesicle fusion.

3. Janet Rowley

   Biology

   For establishing the critical importance of chromosomal rearrangement as a specific cause of human cancer and for a lifetime of research to identify the genes that are rearranged to cause leukemia and lymphoma.

4. Robert S. Langer

   Biology

   For discoveries that led to the development of controlled drug release systems.