The Gairdner Foundation congratulates Professors Ernest McCulloch and James Till on receiving the 2005 Lasker Award “for ingenious experiments that first identified a stem cell - the blood-forming stem cell - which set the stage for all current research on adult and embryonic stem cells” at an award ceremony in New York on September 23, 2005.

Drs. McCulloch and Till received a Gairdner Award in 1969. They are considered to be the fathers of stem cells and the Gairdner Foundation and Canadians in general take pride in this wider recognition.

Dr. John Dirks,
President,The Gairdner Foundation, Toronto