Premio Internacional Canadá Gairdner

Premio Internacional Canadá Gairdner 2015: Ganadores

Destinatarios

  1. Lewis C. Cantley

    Biología

    For his discovery of PI 3-Kinase, a critical component of the cell signaling machinery that plays a key role in normal functions of proliferations and growth and is de-regulated in diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

  2. Lynne E. Maquat

    Biología

    For the discovery of the mechanism that destroys mutant messenger RNAs in human cells, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, which is critically important in both normal and disease states.

  3. Michael N. Hall

    Biología

    For his discovery of the nutrient activated protein kinase TOR and elucidation of its central control of cell growth, critical to development and aging and widely implicated in cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular and immune diseases.

  4. Shimon Sakaguchi

    Biología

    For his discovery of regulatory T cells, characterization of their role in immunity and application to the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer.

  5. Yoshinori Ohsumi

    Biología

    For pioneering the molecular elucidation of autophagy, an essential intracellular, degradation system and when disordered, is linked to many diseases including neurodegeneration, cancer, and infection.