Dr. Iva Greenwald, Da Costa Professor Of Biology, has been awarded the 2025 Canada Gairdner Award. This prestigious award honors “the world’s best biomedical and global health researchers.” Out of 426 laureates honored since 1957, 102 have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes.
Dr. Greenwald was awarded the prize along with Dr. Gary Struhl, a principal investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and a professor at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. They received the award for “pioneering work on the Notch signaling pathway, which has significantly contributed to our understanding of how cells communicate with each other during development, how these signals regulate cell fate determination and how disruption can lead to developmental defects and cancer.”
Though Dr. Greenwald and Dr. Struhl are married, they are independent scientists who run separate labs and have made independent contributions to this field, among others, in addition to occasional collaborations. You can read an interview with Dr. Greenwald and Dr. Struhl on the website of the Zuckerman Institute, here.
Watch a video about this year's awardees here, and read more about them here. To learn more about the Canada Gairdner Award, visit their website here.
