October 20, 2005

The Gairdner Foundation is pleased to announce the following four new appointments to our Medical Advisory Board:

Professor Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl; Professor Ronald E. Pearlman, Ph.D.; Professor Patrick Sissons ,MD, FRCP; and Professor Lap-Chee Tsui, OC, Ph.D., FRS, FRSC.

Proferssor Hartl is Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. He received a 2004 Gairdner Award "for his fundamental discoveries concerning chaperone assisted protein folding in the cell and its relevance to neurodegeneration."

Professor Ronald Pearlman is the Director of the Core Molecular Biology Facility at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Professor Patrick Sissons is the newly appointed Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University.

Professor Lap-Chee Tsui is Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong and the recipient of the 1990 Gairdner International Award.

Dr. John Dirks
President
The Gairdner Foundation
Toronto