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TORONTO, April 7, 2021 /CNW/ - The Gairdner Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021 Canada Gairdner Award laureates, recognizing some of the world s most significant biomedical research and discoveries. During these challenging times, we believe it is important to celebrate scientists and innovators from around the world and commend them for their tireless efforts to conduct research that impacts human health.
2021 Canada Gairdner International Award
The four 2021 Canada Gairdner International Award laureates are recognized for seminal discoveries or contributions to biomedical science:
Dr. Daniel J. Drucker, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario
The head of the W.H.O., Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said later that the mission’s consideration of a possible lab leak was not “extensive enough.”
He continued, “Although the team has concluded that a laboratory leak is the least likely hypothesis, this requires further investigation, potentially with additional missions involving specialist experts, which I am ready to deploy.”
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Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, left open the door for further inquiries into the origins of the virus. Credit.Christopher Black/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
From the start, the task of the mission was never to investigate security or procedures at the Wuhan lab, where a great deal of research has been done on bat coronaviruses in recent years, or at any other labs in China.
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Security personnel in full protective gear stood outside the emergency field hospital Leishenshan in Wuhan, China, in April of last year. Photo / AP
Security personnel in full protective gear stood outside the emergency field hospital Leishenshan in Wuhan, China, in April of last year. Photo / AP
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A scientific mission to China proposed further study for a number of topics. Critics and the director of the WHO have weighed in as well. The joint international and Chinese mission organised by the World
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