The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award is annually awarded by the
Gairdner Foundation to a
Canadian
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...
who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of medicine and medical science.
Award winners
Source
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*1976
Keith J.R. Wightman
*1979
Claude Fortier
*1981
Louis Siminovitch
*1984
Douglas G. Cameron
*1986
Aser Rothstein
*1989
Lloyd D. MacLean
*1992
John Robert Evans
*1999
Charles Hollenberg,
Peter Macklem
*2001
Henry Friesen
Henry George Friesen (July 31, 1934 – April 30, 2025) was a Canadian endocrinologist, a distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba and the discoverer of human prolactin, a hormone which stimulates lactation in mammary gla ...
*2006
Allan R. Ronald
*2008
Alan Bernstein
*2009
David Sackett
*2010
Calvin Stiller
*2011
Michael R. Hayden
*2012
Lorne A. Babiuk
*2013
James C. Hogg
*2014
Salim Yusuf
*2015
Janet Rossant
*2016
Frank Plummer
*2017
Antoine M Hakim
*2018
Frances Alice Shepherd Frances Alice Shepherd, is a Canadian oncologist recognized for her research on lung cancer and her contributions to the design, development, and conduct of clinical trials. She is currently a senior staff physician at Princess Margaret Cancer Cen ...
*2019
Connie Jean Eaves
*2020
Guy A. Rouleau
*2021
Elizabeth Eisenhauer
See also
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Gairdner Foundation
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Gairdner Foundation Global Health Award
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Gairdner Foundation International Award
The Canada Gairdner International Award is given annually by the Gairdner Foundation at a special dinner to five individuals for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science. Receipt of the Gairdner is traditionally considered a ...
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List of medicine awards
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External links
Canada Gairdner Wightman AwardThe Gairdner Foundation
Canadian science and technology awards
Medicine awards