Professors Peter Ratcliffe and Nick White of Oxford University have been named winners of Canada Gairdner Awards for 2010, one of the most prestigious prizes for medical research.
The $100,000 awards have a track record of identifying significant and groundbreaking work early on. Since the Canada Gairdner Awards were created in 1959, there have been 298 awardees. Of these, 76 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.