Michael Smith

Awards

1. 1986

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For the development and use of the technique of site-specific mutagenesis.

2. 1993

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

   for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry; for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies