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Please join us in congratulating two F1000 Members who have been awarded a 2011 Canada Gairdner Award. This award recognizes and rewards “the achievements of medical researchers whose work contributes significantly to improving the quality of human life.”

Both were recognized for

ground breaking discoveries and definition of the family of Toll like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection

Our two winners are:

Immunology Faculty member Shizuo Akira, Director and Professor at the WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka, Japan.

He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Molecular Biology Organization. His other prizes and awards include the Robert Koch Prize, the William B. Coley Award and the Keio International Medical Science Prize.

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Immunology (Innate Immunity) Section Head Jules Hoffmann, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg.

Hoffmann has also won the Robert Koch Prize in Immunology, and is a Member of several Academies. In 2007 he was elected President of the French Academy of Sciences, and is also a member of the Board of Administration of the French Research Agency CNRS.

Congratulations!