2026Canada Gairdner Awards
It honors some of the world’s most significant biomedical and global health research achievements and discoveries.
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| NO. | Institution | Award Recipient | Citation | Source Link | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Vaccine Institute | John D. Clemens | For advances in understanding cholera disease and immunity, and for the development and evaluation of safe, effective, and affordable inactivated oral cholera vaccines that have enabled cholera control worldwide. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/john-d.-clemens | John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award |
| 2 | University of Gothenburg | Jan Holmgren | For advances in understanding cholera disease and immunity, and for the development and evaluation of safe, effective, and affordable inactivated oral cholera vaccines that have enabled cholera control worldwide. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/jan-holmgren | John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award |
| 3 | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry | Matthias Mann | For establishing the foundations of modern systems proteomics through transformative innovations in quantitative protein measurement, mass spectrometry technologies, and computational analysis. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/matthias-mann | Canada Gairdner International Award |
| 4 | ETH Zurich | Ruedi Aebersold | For establishing the foundations of modern systems proteomics through transformative innovations in quantitative protein measurement, mass spectrometry technologies, and computational analysis. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/ruedi-aebersold | Canada Gairdner International Award |
| 5 | University of Toronto | Karen Maxwell | For uncovering the molecular strategies bacteria use to defend against viruses, revealing how viruses known as bacteriophages evade these defences, and laying the foundation for next-generation precision phage therapies to combat antibiotic-resistant infections. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/karen-maxwell | Peter Gilgan Canada Gairdner Momentum Award |
| 6 | Scripps Research | Jeffery W. Kelly | For discovering the anti-aggregation drug, tafamidis, the first effective treatment for a human amyloid disease, specifically transthyretin amyloidosis, providing the first pharmacological evidence that protein aggregation drives neurodegeneration. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/jeffery-w.-kelly | Canada Gairdner International Award |
| 7 | Scripps Research | John R. Yates III | For establishing the foundations of modern systems proteomics through transformative innovations in quantitative protein measurement, mass spectrometry technologies, and computational analysis. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/john-r.-yates-iii | Canada Gairdner International Award |
| 8 | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry | Wolfgang Baumeister | For developing cryo-electron tomography, a method that visualizes molecular structures inside intact cells at near-native resolution, creating a new way to study cellular architecture and revealing the inner workings of life at the molecular level. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/wolfgang-baumeister | Canada Gairdner International Award |
| 9 | University of Calgary | Aaron Phillips | For pioneering work that restores blood pressure control after spinal cord injury, reducing life-threatening complications, improving daily functioning, and transforming clinical care for people living with paralysis. | https://www.gairdner.org/winner/aaron-phillips | Peter Gilgan Canada Gairdner Momentum Award |
