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Recognition for work with lasting impact

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Canada Gairdner International Award

Canada Gairdner International Award 2022: Winners

Recipients

  1. Drew Weissman

    Biology

    "For their pioneering work developing nucleoside-modified mRNA and lipid nanoparticle (LNP) drug delivery: the foundational technologies for the highly effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines"

  2. John E. Dick

    Biology

    For the discovery and characterization of leukemic stem cells, providing insights into the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

  3. Katalin Karikó, Pieter Cullis

    Biology

    For their pioneering work developing nucleoside-modified mRNA and lipid nanoparticle (LNP) drug delivery: the foundational technologies for the highly effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

  4. Stuart H. Orkin

    Biology

    For the discovery of the molecular mechanism responsible for the switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin gene expression during human development and translating that knowledge into a novel treatment for the hemoglobin disorders – sickle cell disease and beta- thalassemia.