Canada Gairdner Awards celebrate 50 years
The Gairdner 50th Anniversary Toronto Symposium
The Gairdner Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, is hosting The Gairdner Foundation 50th Anniversary Toronto Symposium: October 28-30, 2009.
This three-day event will bring together Gairdner Award winners from around the world – including 23 Nobel Prize winners – for a series of lectures and panel discussions at U of T. Elizabeth Blackburn, 2009 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, will be attending. The symposium will culminate with a Gairdner and Gairdner/Nobel Public Forum at Convocation Hall on the evening of Friday, October 30th. The panel will consider the question: The Personalized Genome: Do I Want to Know?
Schedule of Events and Live Webcast Links
View the complete schedule of events
Please view the complete schedule for a breakdown of lecture and panel discussion descriptions and their associated times and live webcast links....[more]
Quick Links to Live Webcast Feeds:
- Oct. 28, 9:00am-12:45pm - Stem Cells, Disease Mechanisms and Future Therapies
http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091028-GFS/index.htm - Oct. 28, 1:40pm-4:45pm - The Cell: An Endless Frontier
http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091028-GFS/index.htm - Oct. 28, 1:25pm-3:00pm - Gairdner Global Health Symposium
http://cih.utoronto.ca/webcast.html - Oct. 28, 3:00pm-4:45pm - The Challenge of Chronic Disease
http://cih.utoronto.ca/webcast.html - Oct. 29, 9:15am-3:00pm - Canada Gairdner Recipients' Lectures, The Charles Hollenberg Symposium
http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091029-GFS/index.htm - Oct. 30, 8:45am-8:30pm - Gairdner/Nobel and Gairdner Laureate Forums
http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091030-GFS/index.htm
Participating in the Programs
Anyone with interest in the health sciences is cordially invited to attend all events, especially the public forum on Friday, October 30. Please visit the Gairdner Foundation site to register.
About the Gairdner Awards
The Gairdner Foundation, overseer of the prestigious Canada Gairdner Awards for contributions to medical science and research, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2009.
The Canada Gairdner International Awards are given annually to individuals from a diversity of fields for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science. Each award now comes with a $100,000 prize, an increased sum made possible by a major grant ($20M) from the federal government in 2008. More than 70 Gairdner laureates have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.
The Canada Gairdner Global Health Award recognizes those who have made scientific advances in one of four areas: basic science, clinical science, or population or environmental health. The advances must have made, or have the potential to make, a significant impact on health in the developing world.
The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award is given to a Canadian researcher who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science.
Links
- Gairdner Nobel Symposium at the University of Toronto -- information flyer (PDF)
- The Gairdner Foundation
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