Canada Gairdner International Award 2009: Winners

Recipients

1. Kazutoshi Mori, Peter Walter

   Biology

   For the dissection and elucidation of a key pathway in the unfolded protein response which regulates protein folding in the cell.

2. Lucy Shapiro, Richard Losick

   Biology

   For the discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division, processes key in cell differentiation and in the generation of cell diversity.

3. Shinya Yamanaka

   Biology

   For his demonstration that the key transcription factors which specify pluripotency may become reprogrammed somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells.