John E. Sulston

Awards

1. 1991

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For establishing C. elegans as a model for studying the genetic control of development.

2. 2002

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For their major seminal contributions to the sequencing of the human and other genomes.

3. 2002

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'