Gairdner Foundation International Award

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The Gairdner Foundation International Award is given annually at a special dinner to three to six people for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science. Receipt of the Gairdner is traditionally considered a precursor to winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine;[1] as of 2006, 67 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to prior Gairdner recipients.[2]

Past winners are:

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Garfield, Eugene (March 12, 1990), "Who will win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Here's a forecast based on Citation Indicators.", Current Comments, no. 11, pp. 3-7
  2. ^ Fraumeni, Paul (October 20, 2006). Gairdner Awards bring top medical minds to U of T. News@UofT. University of Toronto. Retrieved on 2006-10-24.

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