News Room
For immediate release - October 28, 2006
Gala Honours Research Excellence at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
(OTTAWA, ONTARIO) – Ottawa’s business
and community leaders honoured two outstanding researchers tonight
at the 2006 MDS Nordion Gala for Research, an annual event to celebrate
research and to raise funds for the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
(OHRI). This year’s Gala raised more than $125,000.
Dr. Peter Stys was named Researcher of the Year for revealing important
new insights into how the wiring of the nervous system becomes damaged
in diseases such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, brain trauma and
spinal cord injury.
Dr. Seymour Brownstein won the Dr. J. David Grimes Research Career
Achievement Award for his research on the eye, including the development
of a novel freezing technique that can eliminate certain types of
precancerous lesions before they develop into full-blown cancer.
“Dr. Stys and Dr. Brownstein are both exceptionally talented
researchers, driven to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat
disease,” said Dr. Ronald Worton, CEO and Scientific Director
of the OHRI.
The awards ceremony included a special tribute to Dr. Worton, who
will be retiring next year. In his honour, the creation of a new
Dr. Ronald G. Worton Researcher in Training Award was announced.
Starting at next year’s Gala, this award will be presented
each year to an OHRI student researcher who has demonstrated outstanding
effort in their research and is deemed highly likely to succeed
in future research endeavours.
The Gala for Research is an annual black-tie event to recognize
and support outstanding research at the OHRI, the research arm of
The Ottawa Hospital. The event attracts more than 500 of Ottawa’s
business and community leaders.
For more information about this year’s award winners, please
click here.
The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) is a multi-campus, academic
health sciences centre, serving 1.5 million residents of Ottawa
and Eastern Ontario, both in English and French. It provides care
for more patients than any other hospital in Canada, and is one
of the largest acute care hospitals in the country. It boasts specialty
centres in cancer, heart, kidney and vision care, as well as rehabilitation
services. Working together with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute,
the University of Ottawa, and other partners, TOH is gaining national
recognition for high-quality patient care, teaching and research.
It ranks as one of the most efficient teaching hospitals in the
country. For more information, visit The Ottawa Hospital Web site
at www.ottawahospital.on.ca.
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s mission
is to inspire and enable people to support the highest quality health
care at The Ottawa Hospital and lifesaving research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. For more information, visit
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Web site at www.ohfoundation.ca.
For more information, please contact:
Robin Percival
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation
Media & Public Relations Officer
Tel.: (613) 798-5555, ext. 18718
Cell: 613-614-8755
rpercival@ottawahospital.on.ca
Jennifer Paterson
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Director, Communications and Public Relations
Tel.: 613-798-5555 extension 19691
Cell: 613-614-5253
jpaterson@ohri.ca
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