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The Canada Gairdner International Award is an annual prize that recognises significant contributions by biomedical scientists to understanding, treating and curing human disease. Recipients are nominated and then selected by two panels of leading Canadian and international scientists, and many previous recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.

Congratulations to Stephen Elledge, Faculty Member in Cell Biology, one of five international scientists to be awarded the prize. He has been honored “for elucidation of the DNA damage response as a signaling network that controls DNA repair and genomic stability with profound implications for cancer and other diseases.”

For more information on Stephen’s work, see his page on the Gairdner website, and for full details and a list of this year’s winners, please see the press release.