Gairdner Science Week 2025 Laureate Lectures

A rare opportunity to hear directly from the 2025 Canada Gairdner Award recipients

About this Event

The Laureate Lectures offer a rare opportunity to hear directly from the 2025 Canada Gairdner Award recipients as they share the stories and science behind their discoveries. This event will include lectures from Early Career Investigators.

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Agenda


🕑: 09:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
Host: Janet Rossant, Gairdner President & Scientific Director

🕑: 09:05 AM
Michael Welsh Lecture
Host: Michael Welsh

Info: Michael Welsh, MD, Roy J. Carver Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Director, Pappajohn Biomedical Institute; Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

🕑: 09:30 AM
Paul Negulescu Lecture
Host: Paul Negulescu

Info: Paul Negulescu, PhD, Senior Vice President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA, USA

🕑: 10:00 AM
Jennifer Stinson Lecture
Host: Jennifer Stinson

Info: Jennifer Stinson, RN-EC, Ph.D, CPNP, FAAN, CAHS Fellow

Senior Scientist, SickKids Research Institute; Nurse Practitioner, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids); Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Pain Management, Research and Education; Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

🕑: 10:25 AM
Health Break

🕑: 10:40 AM
André Briend Lecture
Host: André Briend

Info: André Briend, MD, Ph.D, Former Senior Scientist, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Adjunct Professor, Tampere Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland; Affiliated Professor, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Demark

🕑: 11:10 AM
Early Career Investigator Presentation
Host: Prativa Baral

Info: Prativa Baral, PhD, MPH; Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Global and Public Health, McGill University; Deputy Director, Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab (PERL), McGill University; Faculty Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Co-Founder, Let Science Connect

🕑: 11:20 AM
Daniel De Carvalho Lecture
Host: Daniel De Carvalho

Info: Daniel De Carvalho, Ph.D, Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network; Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto; Allan Slaight Scientist and Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

🕑: 11:50 AM
Iva Greenwald Lecture
Host: Iva Greenwald

Info: Iva Greenwald, Ph.D, Da Costa Professor of Biology, Dept of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

🕑: 12:15 PM
Gary Struhl Lecture
Host: Gary Struhl

Info: Gary Struhl, Ph.D, Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Institute; Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

🕑: 12:45 PM
Early Career Investigator Presentation
Host: Nika Shakiba

Info: Nika Shakiba, PhD, PEng; Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia; Specially Appointed Adjust Associated Professor, Premium Research Institute for Human Metaverse Medicine (PRIMe), The University of Osaka

🕑: 12:55 PM
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas Lecture
Host: Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas

Info: Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Professor Emeritus, Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School; Professor Emeritus, Collège de France

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