Kim Nasmyth

Awards

1. 2007

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his discovery of the mechanism of chromosome segregation during cell division, which has profound implications for our understanding of chromosome non-disjunction in human cancer and other genetic diseases.

2. 2018

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for elucidating the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer.