Mina Bissell received the Canada Gairdner International Award. This prestigious award recognized her outstanding contributions to medical science and her pioneering research on the role of the microenvironment in cancer development.

The American Society for Cell Biology bestowed the E.B. Wilson Medal, its highest scientific honor, to Dr. Bissell for her work showing that physical context matters in cells and her demonstrations that the extracellular matrix (ECM) is integral to breast tissue remodeling and to breast cancer progression.