Sixteen 捆绑SM社区 researchers appointed Canada Research Chairs
App. $16 million in federal funds to be shared by 14 newly named, two renewed CRCs
Sixteen 捆绑SM社区 researchers exploring issues from human genomics to neuroscience to the history of science in Islamic societies are among the 98 newly appointed Canada Research Chairs announced May 23 by Dr. Colin Carrie, Secretary to the Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry and minister responsible for the Canada Research Chairs Program.
捆绑SM社区 received six Tier-1 and ten Tier-2 Chairs, for a total of $13,400,000. In addition to that amount, the Canada Foundation for Innovation is investing approximately $2.5 million to fund research infrastructure essential to the work done by 15 of those Chairs.
鈥淥ur newly released science and technology strategy鈥揗obilizing Science and Technology to Canada鈥檚 Advantage鈥搑ecognizes the importance of doing more to turn ideas into innovations that provide solutions to our environment, health and other important challenges, and to improve Canada鈥檚 economic competitiveness,鈥� said Parliamentary Secretary Colin Carrie. 鈥淲e are investing in promising researchers who turn ideas and innovations into practical and commercial applications for the benefit of all Canadians.鈥�
The Government of Canada created the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program in 2000 to establish 2,000 research professorships across the country by 2008, with the aim of making Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development. Since then, 捆绑SM社区 has used its CRCs to recruit an exceptional group of international researchers as well as to repatriate a number of outstanding Canadian and Qu茅b茅cois researchers from postings abroad.
"The Canada Research Chairs Program continues to serve as an exceptional federal government instrument to allow Canada to attract and keep in Canada scholars and scientists from around the world,鈥� said 捆绑SM社区 Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum. "We are exceptionally proud of what all our CRCs have accomplished and look forward to the next wave of knowledge and innovation from these new appointees.鈥�
捆绑SM社区's newest Canada Research Chairs:
Luis B. Agellon
Tier 1
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in Emerging Roles of Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics in the Molecular Regulation of Metabolism in Health and Disease
$1,400,000
Shelley Clark
Tier 2
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Global Health
$500,000
Kim M. Cornish
Tier 1
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neuroscience and Education
$1,400,000
Florence S. Dzierszinski
Tier 2
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in Parasite Pathogenesis
$500,000
Bruno Giros
Tier 1
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in the Neurobiology of Mental Illness
$1,400,000
Pascal Hubert
Tier 2
Renewal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Canada Research Chair in Advanced Composite Materials
$500,000
Elizabeth A. V. Jones
Tier 2
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Canada Research Chair in Embryonic Biomechanics
$500,000
Pavlos Kollias
Tier 2
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Canada Research Chair in Radar Applications in Weather and Climate Research
$500,000
St茅phane A. Laporte
Tier 2
Renewal
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canada Research Chair in Molecular Endocrinology
$500,000
Luc Mongeau
Tier 1
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Canada Research Chair in Flow-Induced Sound and Vibrations
$1,400,000
Wissam S. Musallam
Tier 2
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Canada Research Chair in Neural Prostheses
$500,000
Tomi Pastinen
Tier 2
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in Human Genomics
$500,000
Faiz Jamil Ragep
Tier 1
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies
$1,400,000
Ralf Schirrmacher
Tier 2
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in Synthesis of Novel Radiopharmaceuticals for Positron Emission
Tomography in Neurology and Oncology
$500,000
Amir Shmuel
Tier 2
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience and Brain Imaging
$500,000
Michael J.L. Sullivan
Tier 1
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Health
$1,400,000