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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
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(Philadelphia, PA) - About 6.2 million Americans suffer from heart failure, an incurable disease with a staggering mortality rate - some 40 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis. Heart failure is one form of heart disease, for which new therapies are desperately needed.
Now, in new work, scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM) at Temple University identify a path to a promising novel therapeutic strategy, taking aim at a molecule in the heart known as G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5 (GRK5). In a study published online in the journal
Cardiovascular Research, the scientists show in mice that reducing GRK5 levels can significantly improve survival following heart attack.
Created: March 11, 2021 08:35 PM
As the largest vaccination effort in American history continues, Northland medical experts are weighing in on commonly asked questions.
On Thursday, they gave a virtual presentation about COVID-19 vaccines and invited the public to ask them questions.
One of the first questions to be asked was whether or not one of the three COVID-19 vaccines was better than the others? To this, medical exerts said that two shots offered by both Pfizer and Moderna are not necessarily better than one.
Instead, they said any protection is better than no protection. Therefore, people should not turn down an available dose of any of the three shots.
Created: March 11, 2021 08:35 PM
As the largest vaccination effort in American history continues, Northland medical experts are weighing in on commonly asked questions.
On Thursday, they gave a virtual presentation about COVID-19 vaccines and invited the public to ask them questions.
One of the first questions to be asked was whether or not one of the three COVID-19 vaccines was better than the others? To this, medical exerts said that two shots offered by both Pfizer and Moderna are not necessarily better than one.
Instead, they said any protection is better than no protection. Therefore, people should not turn down an available dose of any of the three shots.