The Gairdner Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in biomedical research and global health. Since 1957, the Gairdner Foundation has been awarding scientists and researchers around the world with the Canada Gairdner Awards. Over the decades, these awards have become renowned as one of the most prestigious honors in the world for medical research, often recognized as a precursor to the Nobel Prize.[1]
With over 426 awards presented to laureates from 40 countries—102 of whom have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes—the Gairdner Awards highlight groundbreaking discoveries that have transformed human health, including CRISPR gene editing, DNA replication, and the Human Genome Project.[2]