Jacques Miller

Awards

1. 1966

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   In recognition of his fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of the thymus in the development of normal immunological mechanisms in early life, and in their maintenance in the adult, and for the stimulus which his studies of the thymus gave to the rapidly developing field of immunobiology.

2. 2018

   Japan Prize — Medical Science, Medicinal Science

   Biology

   for the discovery of B and T lymphocyte lineages and its impact on understanding disease pathology and therapeutic development.

3. 2019

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of modern immunology