Salk scientist Ron Evans wins 2006 Gairdner Award for his discovery of hormone sensors
La Jolla, CA - Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., professor and head of the Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been named a 2006 winner of the prestigious Gairdner Award for his pioneering research into nuclear hormone receptors.... ...The Gairdner, Canada's highest scientific honor, recognizes medical science leaders whose accomplishments have advanced the frontier...Yale biophysicist Thomas Steitz receives Gairdner Award for medical research
... "The 2007 awards reflect the importance of basic discoveries that lead to a better understanding of human disease and the development of treatments and cures to alleviate them," sai...Two Yale biologists win 2006 Gairdner Awards for medical research
New Haven, Conn. -- The 2006 Gairdner International Awards, among the most prestigious awards in science, will be presented to two Yale biologists and three other scientists for their breakthrough research on RNAs, cell motility and hormones....... . The awards will be presented on October 26 at the Four Seasons Hote...Jeffrey Friedman, discoverer of leptin, receives Gairdner, Passano awards
Rockefeller University's Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., a molecular geneticist whose discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has changed our understanding of the causes of human obesity, has received two prestigious awards for this work: the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Passano Foundation Award. ...... Prior to his groundbreaking research, litt...Dr. Brenda Milner, recognized as a founder of cognitive neuroscience, was named a 2005 winner of the prestigious Gairdner Award. Dr. Milner, the Dorothy J. Killam Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), and Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, was awarded the prize for her pioneering research in memory....... Dr. Milner, originally from...