Günter Blobel

Awards

1. 1982

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his contributions to our understanding of the ways in which newly-synthesized proteins are transported within cells.

2. 1993

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For landmark discoveries concerning the processes by which intercellular proteins are targeted across cell membranes.

3. 1999

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell