Canada Gairdner International Award

Canada Gairdner International Award: every winner

Every recorded recipient in one list, oldest first. Given since 1959 by the Gairdner Foundation, established in 1957, for biomedical research that advances understanding of human biology and disease. Five awards are presented annually in Toronto, Canada. Carries a prize of roughly $75,000 per laureate.

Browse Canada Gairdner International Award by year

387 recipients, 1959-2026

Year	Winner
1959	Alfred Blalock
1959	Charles Ragan
1959	Eleanor Zaimis
1959	Harry M. Rose
1959	Wilfred G. Bigelow
1959	William D.M. Paton
1960	Arnold R. Rich
1960	John Heysham Gibbon
1960	John McMichael
1960	Joshua H. Burn
1960	Karl Meyer
1960	William F. Hamilton
1961	Alan C. Burton
1961	Alexander B. Gutman
1961	Jonas H. Kellgren
1961	Russell Brock
1961	Ulf von Euler
1962	Albert Coons
1962	Clarence Crafoord
1962	Francis Harry Compton Crick
1962	Henry G. Kunkel
1962	Stanley Sarnoff
1963	C. Walton Lillehei
1963	Eric G.L. Bywaters
1963	Irvine H. Page
1963	Jacques Genest
1963	Murray L. Barr
1963	Pierre Grabar
1964	Deborah Doniach
1964	Gordon D.W. Murray
1964	Ivan M. Roitt
1964	Karl H. Beyer Jr.
1964	Keith R. Porter
1964	Seymour Benzer
1965	Charles E. Dent
1965	Charles P. Leblond
1965	Daniel J. McCarty
1965	F. Horace Smirk
1965	Jerome W. Conn
1965	Robin R.A. Coombs
1966	Charles Brenton Huggins
1966	Geoffrey S. Dawes
1966	Jacques Miller
1966	Jan Waldenström
1966	Luis F. Leloir
1966	Rodney R. Porter
1966	Willem J. Kolff
1967	Christian de Duve
1967	D. Harold Copp
1967	George E. Palade
1967	Iain Macintyre
1967	J. Fraser Mustard
1967	Julius Axelrod
1967	Marshall W. Nirenberg
1967	Peter J. Moloney
1967	Sidney Udenfriend
1968	Bruce Chown
1968	George H. Hitchings
1968	J. Edwin Seegmiller
1968	Jacques Oudin
1968	James L. Gowans
1969	Belding H. Scribner
1969	Earl Wilbur Sutherland
1969	Ernest McCulloch
1969	F. Mason Sones
1969	Frank J. Dixon
1969	James Till
1969	John P. Merrill
1969	Robert B. Salter
1970	Niels K. Jerne
1970	Robert A. Good
1970	Robert Bruce Merrifield
1970	Vincent P. Dole
1970	Richard Doll
1971	Charles Best
1971	Donald F. Steiner
1971	Frederick Sanger
1971	Rachmiel Levine
1971	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1971	Solomon A. Berson
1972	Britton Chance
1972	Karl Sune Bergström
1972	Oleh Hornykiewicz
1972	Robert R. Race
1972	Ruth Sanger
1973	Denis Parsons Burkitt
1973	Harold E. Johns
1973	John Charnley
1973	Kimishige Ishizaka
1973	Roscoe O. Brady
1973	Teruko Ishizaka
1974	Andrew V. Schally
1974	David Baltimore
1974	Hans J. Muller-Eberhard
1974	Hector F. DeLuca
1974	Howard Martin Temin
1974	Judah H. Quastel
1974	Roger Guillemin
1975	Baruch S. Blumberg
1975	Ernest Beutler
1975	Henri G. Hers
1975	Hugh E. Huxley
1975	John D. Keith
1975	William T. Mustard
1976	Eugene P. Kennedy
1976	George D. Snell
1976	George Klein
1976	Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1976	Thomas R. Dawber
1976	William B. Kannel
1977	Cyril A. Clarke
1977	Henry G. Friesen
1977	Jean Dausset
1977	K. Frank Austen
1977	Victor A. McKusick
1978	Donald S. Fredrickson
1978	Edwin G. Krebs
1978	Elizabeth C. Miller
1978	James A. Miller
1978	Jean-Pierre Changeux
1978	Lars Terenius
1978	Phil Gold
1978	Samuel O. Freedman
1978	Sydney Brenner
1979	Charles R. Scriver
1979	Elwood V. Jensen
1979	Frederick Sanger
1979	George F. Cahill Jr.
1979	James W. Black
1979	Walter Gilbert
1980	Efraim Racker
1980	Har Gobind Khorana
1980	Irving B. Fritz
1980	Jesse Roth
1980	Michael Sela
1980	Paul Berg
1981	Bengt I. Samuelsson
1981	César Milstein
1981	Elizabeth F. Neufeld
1981	Georges J. F. Köhler
1981	Jerry H-C Wang
1981	Joseph L. Goldstein
1981	Michael S. Brown
1981	Saul Roseman
1981	Wai Yiu Cheung
1982	Arvid Carlsson
1982	Gilbert Ashwell
1982	Günter Blobel
1982	Manfred M. Mayer
1982	Paul Janssen
1983	Bruce N. Ames
1983	Donald Henderson
1983	Gerald D. Aurbach
1983	John Allen Clements
1983	Richard K. Gershon
1983	Susumu Tonegawa
1984	Alfred G. Gilman
1984	Harold E. Varmus
1984	J. Michael Bishop
1984	Krešimir Krnjević
1984	Martin Rodbell
1984	Robert L. Noble
1984	Yuet Wai Kan
1985	Charles Yanofsky
1985	Mark Ptashne
1985	Mary F. Lyon
1985	Paul C. Lauterbur
1985	Raymond U. Lemieux
1985	Stanley Cohen
1986	Adolfo J. de Bold
1986	Harald Sonnenberg
1986	James E. Darnell
1986	Jean-François Borel
1986	Michael Smith
1986	Peter C. Doherty
1986	Phillip A. Sharp
1986	Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1986	T. Geoffrey Flynn
1987	Edward B. Lewis
1987	Eric R. Kandel
1987	Luc Montagnier
1987	Michael G. Rossmann
1987	René G. Favaloro
1987	Robert C. Gallo
1987	Walter Jakob Gehring
1988	Albert J. Aguayo
1988	Michael A. Epstein
1988	Michael Berridge
1988	Robert J. Lefkowitz
1988	Thomas R. Cech
1988	Yasutomi Nishizuka
1989	Bert Sakmann
1989	Erwin Neher
1989	Jean-Marie Ghuysen
1989	Louis M. Kunkel
1989	Mark M. Davis
1989	Ronald G. Worton
1989	Tak W. Mak
1990	E. Donnall Thomas
1990	Edwin Southern
1990	Francis S. Collins
1990	John R. Riordan
1990	Lap-Chee Tsui
1990	Oliver Smithies
1990	Victor Ling
1991	David H. MacLennan
1991	John E. Sulston
1991	Kary B. Mullis
1991	M. Judah Folkman
1991	Robert F. Furchgott
1991	Sydney Brenner
1992	Bert Vogelstein
1992	Leland H. Hartwell
1992	Paul M. Nurse
1992	Richard Peto
1992	Robert A. Weinberg
1992	Yoshio Masui
1993	Alvan R. Feinstein
1993	Mario R. Capecchi
1993	Michel M. Ter-Pogossian
1993	Oliver Smithies
1993	Stanley B. Prusiner
1994	Tony Pawson
1994	Don C. Wiley
1994	Donald Metcalf
1994	Pamela J. Bjorkman
1994	Tony Hunter
1995	Arthur Kornberg
1995	Bruce M. Alberts
1995	Roger Y. Tsien
1996	Barry J. Marshall
1996	James E. Rothman
1996	Janet Rowley
1996	Randy W. Schekman
1996	Robert S. Langer
1997	Alfred G. Knudson
1997	Corey S. Goodman
1997	Erkki Ruoslahti
1997	Richard O. Hynes
1998	Carol W. Greider
1998	Elizabeth H. Blackburn
1998	Giuseppe Attardi
1998	Gottfried Schatz
1998	Walter Neupert
1999	Alexander Varshavsky
1999	Andrew H. Wyllie
1999	Avram Hershko
1999	H. Robert Horvitz
2000	Alain R.M. Townsend
2000	Emil R. Unanue
2000	Jack Hirsh
2000	Robert G. Roeder
2000	Roger D. Kornberg
2001	Bertil Hille
2001	Clay Armstrong
2001	Marc W. Kirschner
2001	Roderick MacKinnon
2002	Eric S. Lander
2002	Francis S. Collins
2002	J. Craig Venter
2002	James Dewey Watson
2002	Jean Weissenbach
2002	John E. Sulston
2002	Maynard V. Olson
2002	Michael S. Waterman
2002	Philip P. Green
2002	Robert H. Waterston
2003	Linda B. Buck
2003	Ralph M. Steinman
2003	Richard Axel
2003	Seiji Ogawa
2003	Wayne A. Hendrickson
2004	Arthur L. Horwich
2004	Franz-Ulrich Hartl
2004	George Sachs
2004	R. John Ellis
2004	Seymour Benzer
2005	Andrew Z. Fire
2005	Brenda Milner
2005	Craig C. Mello
2005	Douglas L. Coleman
2005	Endel Tulving
2005	Jeffrey M. Friedman
2006	Alan Hall
2006	Joan A. Steitz
2006	Ralph L. Brinster
2006	Ronald M. Evans
2006	Thomas D. Pollard
2007	C. David Allis
2007	Dennis J. Slamon
2007	Harry F. Noller
2007	Kim Nasmyth
2007	Thomas A. Steitz
2008	Gary Ruvkun
2008	Harald zur Hausen
2008	Nahum Sonenberg
2008	Samuel Weiss
2008	Victor Ambros
2009	Kazutoshi Mori
2009	Lucy Shapiro
2009	Peter Walter
2009	Richard Losick
2009	Shinya Yamanaka
2010	Gregg L. Semenza
2010	Peter J. Ratcliffe
2010	Pierre Chambon
2010	William Catterall
2010	William G. Kaelin
2011	Adrian Bird
2011	Aharon Razin
2011	Howard Cedar
2011	Jules A. Hoffmann
2011	Shizuo Akira
2012	Jeffrey C. Hall
2012	Jeffrey Ravetch
2012	Michael Rosbash
2012	Michael W. Young
2012	Thomas M. Jessell
2013	Daniel W. Bradley
2013	Harvey J. Alter
2013	Gregory P. Winter
2013	Stephen Elledge
2014	Harold F. Dvorak
2014	James P. Allison
2014	Napoleone Ferrara
2014	Marc Feldmann
2014	Ravinder Maini
2014	Titia de Lange
2015	Lewis C. Cantley
2015	Lynne E. Maquat
2015	Michael N. Hall
2015	Shimon Sakaguchi
2015	Yoshinori Ohsumi
2016	Emmanuelle Charpentier
2016	Feng Zhang
2016	Jennifer A. Doudna
2016	Philippe Horvath
2016	Rodolphe Barrangou
2017	Akira Endo
2017	David Julius
2017	Huda Zoghbi
2017	Lewis E. Kay
2017	Rino Rappuoli
2018	Azim Surani
2018	Davor Solter
2018	Edward S. Boyden
2018	Karl Deisseroth
2018	Peter Hegemann
2019	Bruce Stillman
2019	John F.X. Diffley
2019	Ronald Vale
2019	Susan Band Horwitz
2019	Timothy A. Springer
2020	Elaine Fuchs
2020	Masatoshi Takeichi
2020	Mina J. Bissell
2020	Roel Nusse
2020	Rolf Kemler
2021	Daniel J. Drucker
2021	Jens Juul Holst
2021	Joel Habener
2021	Mary-Claire King
2022	Drew Weissman
2022	John E. Dick
2022	Katalin Karikó
2022	Pieter Cullis
2022	Stuart H. Orkin
2023	Bonnie L. Bassler
2023	Demis Hassabis
2023	Everett Peter Greenberg
2023	John M. Jumper
2023	Michael R. Silverman
2024	David Klenerman
2024	Michel Sadelain
2024	Pascal Mayer
2024	Shankar Balasubramanian
2024	Zelig Eshhar
2025	Gary Struhl
2025	Iva Greenwald
2025	Michael J. Welsh
2025	Paul Negulescu
2025	Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
2026	Jeffery W. Kelly
2026	John R. Yates III
2026	Matthias Mann
2026	Ruedi Aebersold
2026	Wolfgang Baumeister