Peter Walter

Awards

1. 2009

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For the dissection and elucidation of a key pathway in the unfolded protein response which regulates protein folding in the cell.

2. 2014

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For discoveries concerning the unfolded protein response — an intracellular quality-control system that detects harmful misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and signals the nucleus to carry out corrective measures.

3. 2014

   Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

   Biology

   For their discovery of the Unfolded Protein Response of the endoplasmic reticulum, a cell signalling pathway that controls organelle homeostasis and quality of protein export in eukaryotic cells.

4. 2018

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for elucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures.