One of Canada’s foremost medical biophysicists

Working with Dr. Harold Johns, Sylvia Fedoruk served on a team of scientists involved in the development of one of the world's first cobalt-60 unit (the “Cobalt Bomb”), and one of the first nuclear medicine scanning machines, which pioneered the curative treatment of cancer using high intensity radioactive cobalt in humans. In time, she became chief medical physicist for the Saskatchewan Cancer Foundation.

An esteemed Canadian investigator and ingenious experimentalist
 

A pioneer in Canadian cancer treatment

An inspirational role model

A pioneer in hormone research and cancer treatment

A pioneer in biomedical research

Together with his colleague, Dr. James Till, Dr. Ernest McCulloch created the first quantitative, clonal method to identify stem cells and used this technique for pioneering studies on stem cells. In addition to providing detailed information about blood cell development, they established the concept of stem cells and set the framework in which stem cells are studied today.

A cutting-edge leader in the field of cell biology

Dr. Pawson's ground-breaking studies have focused on the signals that are transmitted between cells in the human body and how these forms a pattern of communication. By understanding cellular communication, scientists can track how the pattern of communication can “breakdown” in conditions such as heart disease and immune system deficiencies.

An inspirational educator and a ground-breaking scientist in cancer research

A major figure in the fields of molecular and cellular biology

In 1984, Dr. Mak solved one of the toughest problems in immunology – the structure of the T cell receptor for antigens. Until then, the nature of its antigen receptor had been unknown. In fact, the principal idea was that the T cell receptor was some unusual form of antibody.

A pioneer in gene therapy and cancer research