Our 2018 Vancouver Gairdner presenters will be:
Recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award
“For the discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression and its consequences for development and disease”
Director of Germline and Epigenetics Research, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute; Marshall-Walton Professor, University of Cambridge
Presentation Title: TBA
Recipient of the 2018 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
“For ground-breaking work in conceptualizing and quantifying the Global Burden of Disease”
Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME); Professor of Global Health, University of Washington
Presentation Title: TBA