Moments in Time

Dr. Ian Stirling received the Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research. The award recognizes a leading natural science researcher.

Dr. Ziad Nasreddine and a team of researchers developed a tool that would provide an in-depth diagnosis for early signs of dementia

In 1973, Torontonian Frank L. Graham and Alex J. van der Eb of The Netherlands co-developed a technique for introducing DNA into mammalian cells.

In 1993, Gloria Thomson was the first recipient of the WMLDF, a fund established by CSMLS, the national laboratory professionals.

University of British Columbia botanist Jonathan Page was the lead investigator in the first-ever attempt to sequence the genome of the cannabis plant

Dr. Daniel Drucker awarded for his research that led to the development of two new classes of drugs for Type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes essentially meant death before two Canadian researchers, Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best, discovered insulin in 1921.