Adrian Bird

Awards

1. 2011

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression.

2. 2016

   Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

   Biology

   For their discovery of the genes and the encoded proteins that recognize one chemical modification of the DNA of chromosomes that influences gene control as the basis of the developmental disorder Rett syndrome.

3. 2020

   The Brain Prize

   Biology

   For pioneering work on Rett syndrome and the epigenetic regulation of brain development and function.