Our Team
Gairdner Foundation Team
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Sarah Devonshire
Director, Awards, Outreach and Global Partnerships -
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Paige O’Beirne
Director of Operations -
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Jordana Rosen
Senior Communications Advisor -
Jocelyn Togeretz
Manager, Programs and Partnerships -
Syeda Amrin Iqbal
Program Assistant -
Emma Stewart
Communications Advisor -
David White
Director, Campaign and Major Gifts
Board of Directors
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Sherine Gabriel
Director - Tempe, Arizona, USA -
Tahira Hassan
Director - Toronto, ON, Canada -
Jamie Kindred
Director - Ottawa, ON, Canada -
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Marie Josée Lamothe
Director – Montreal, Quebec, Canada -
Mark Lievonen
Director- Stouffville, Ontario, Canada -
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Dr. Stephen Lucas
CEO – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada -
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Calli Naish
Research Coordinator – Calgary, Alberta, Canada -
Gail O’Brien
Director- Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
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Lawrence Pentland
Director – Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
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Committees
The Gairdner reputation rests squarely on the outstanding quality of its adjudication process.
Global Health Advisory Committee
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Gordon Dougan
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK -
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Paul McDonald
PhD Professor, Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON -
Christopher Murray
Institute Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Chair, Health Metrics Sciences; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA -
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Sangita Sharma
PhD Canada Research Chair in Population Health, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB -
Kanta Subbarao
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biology and Control of Zoonotic and Pandemic Respiratory Viruses, Professor, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC -
Medical Advisory Board
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Wendy Bickmore
Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburg, Edinburgh, UK -
Nicolas Bisson
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, QC -
Benjamin Blencowe
PhD Banbury Chair in Medical Research, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON -
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Karl Deisseroth
Professor, Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA -
Daniel Drucker
Senior Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON -
Alain Fischer
Chair, Experimental Medicine, Collège de France, Paris, France -
Lea Harrington
PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON -
Akiko Iwasaki
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA -
Stefan Knapp
CSO, Structural Genomics Consortium, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany -
Maria Leptin
President, European Research Council, Brussels, Belgium -
Lynne Maquat
PhD J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA -
Stephen O'Rahilly
MD FRS Director, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK -
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Gerry Wright
PhD Executive Director of the Global Nexus School for Pandemic Prevention & Response, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Medical Review Panel
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Emma Allen-Vercoe
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON -
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Stephane Angers
Director, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON -
Guillaume Bourque
PhD Professor, Department of Human Genetics; Director of Bioinformatics; McGill Genome Center, McGill University, Montréal, QC -
Natasha Chang
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC -
Julie Claycomb
PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON -
Spencer Freeman
Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON -
Anne-Claude Gingras (Co-Chair)
PhD Director, Lunenfeld- Tanenbaum Research Institute; VP Research, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON -
Véronique Giroux
PhD Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC -
Jennifer Gommerman
PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON -
Savraj Grewal
PhD Professor and Associate Dean Research (Grants), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB -
Xi Huang
PhD Scientist, Arthur & Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON -
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Megan Levings
PhD Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC -
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Mathieu Lupien
PhD Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Professor, Dept. of Medical Biophysics University of Toronto, Toronto, ON -
Frank MacMaster
PhD VP Research & Innovation, IWK Health; Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dalhousie School of Medicine Halifax, NS -
Jean-Yves Masson
PhD FCAHS Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry, and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, QC -
Thibault Mayor
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC, Vancouver, BC -
Neeloffer Mookherjee
PhD Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB -
Gavin Oudit
MD PhD FRCPC Director, Heart Function Clinic, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB -
Guillaume Paré
MD Director, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON -
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Matt Smith
Research Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC
Momentum Award Committee
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Bonnie Bassler
Squibb Professor Molecular Biology and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA -
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Victor Ling
PhD, OC, OBC Distinguished Scientist, Integrative Oncology, BC Cancer; Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC -
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Ron Vale
Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus and Vice-President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA -
Esther Verheyen
Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
