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Anthony Pawson

Anthony Pawson

Born	October 18 1952 (1952-10-18) (age 60) Maidstone, England
Nationality	United Kingdom Canada
Field	Genetics, microbiology
Institutions	Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute University of Toronto
Alma mater	University of Cambridge King's College London
Known for	Cellular signal transduction
Notable prizes	Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)

Anthony James Pawson, OC, O.Ont, CH, FRS, FRSC, Ph.D., (born October 18 1952) is a British-born Canadian microbiologist whose research has revolutionized the understanding of signal transduction, and the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external cues.

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Born in Maidstone, England, he received an MA in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and received a Ph.D. in 1976 from King's College London. From 1976 to 1980 he pursued postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1981 to 1985, he was Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.

Pawson is a Distinguished Investigator and former Director of Research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Toronto both of which he joined in 1985.

Honours and awards

1994 Gairdner Foundation International Award
1994 Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada
1998 Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics.
1998 The Royal Society of Canada Flavelle Medal for meritorious achievement in biological science
2000 Officer of the Order of Canada
2004 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University
2005 Wolf Prize in Medicine
2005 Order of Ontario
2006 Companion of Honour
2007 Premiers Summit Award
2007 University of Chicago Howard Taylor Ricketts Award

References

Elaine Smith. "Professor named to Order of Companions of Honour", news@UofT, University of Toronto, 5 July 2006. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.
Anthony Pawson - OC, O.Ont, Ph.D, FRS, FRSC. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (17 April 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-18.

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Wolf Prize in Medicine Laureates

George Snell / Jean Dausset / Jon J. van Rood (1978) • Roger Sperry / Arvid Carlsson / Oleh Hornykiewicz (1979) • César Milstein / Leo Sachs / James L. Gowans (1980) • Barbara McClintock / Stanley Norman Cohen (1981) • Jean-Pierre Changeux / Solomon H. Snyder / James W. Black (1982) • Donald F. Steiner (1984) • Osamu Hayaishi (1986) • Pedro Cuatrecasas / Meir Wilchek (1987) • Henri G. Hers / Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1988) • John Gurdon / Edward B. Lewis (1989) • Maclyn McCarty (1990) • Seymour Benzer (1991) • Judah Folkman (1992) • Michael Berridge / Yasutomi Nishizuka (1994) • Stanley B. Prusiner (1995) • Mary F. Lyon (1997) • Michael Sela / Ruth Arnon (1998) • Eric Kandel (1999) • Avram Hershko / Alexander Varshavsky (2001) • Ralph L. Brinster / Mario Capecchi / Oliver Smithies (2002) • Robert Weinberg / Roger Y. Tsien (2004) • Alexander Levitzki / Anthony R. Hunter / Anthony Pawson (2005)

Categories: British biochemists | Canadian biochemists

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