Canada Gairdner International Award 2026: Winners

Recipients

1. Jeffery W. Kelly

   Biology

   For discovering the anti-aggregation drug, tafamidis, the first effective treatment for a human amyloid disease, specifically transthyretin amyloidosis, providing the first pharmacological evidence that protein aggregation drives neurodegeneration.

2. John R. Yates III, Matthias Mann, Ruedi Aebersold

   Biology

   For establishing the foundations of modern systems proteomics through transformative innovations in quantitative protein measurement, mass spectrometry technologies, and computational analysis.

3. Wolfgang Baumeister

   Biology

   For developing cryo-electron tomography, a method that visualizes molecular structures inside intact cells at near-native resolution, creating a new way to study cellular architecture and revealing the inner workings of life at the molecular level.