McGill leadership in research enhanced with seven new Canada Research Chairs
McGill's ranking as Canada's most research-intensive university was further enhanced today with the announcement of seven new Canada Research Chairs, bringing the total of CRCs at McGill to 122.
Since the creation of the Canada Research Chairs Program in 2000 by the Government of Canada, McGill has recruited an exceptional roster of international researchers as well as repatriated a number of outstanding Canadian and Québécois researchers from postings abroad as CRCs.
"This is excellent news for McGill," said Denis Thérien, the University's Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations). "These appointments enhance immeasurably an already exceptional research community that secures, day after day, McGill's contribution to Quebec and Canada as well as its competitiveness internationally."
The seven researchers joining that distinguished list today will bring to McGill their unique expertise in fields ranging from engineering to biology to information coding. They have come to McGill from, among other institutions, Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, the University of Lübeck in Germany and the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in the Netherlands.
Six of the seven new CRCs are five-year, Tier-2 appointments, worth $500,000 each. The Chair in Extracellular Matrix Biology, awarded to Dr. Dieter Reinhardt, is a seven-year, Tier-1 appointment, worth $1.4 million. The program also includes a $1.2-million investment from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, to provide laboratory equipment and material for these researchers for a total investment of $5.6 million.
Industry Minister Maxime Bernier, who made the announcement in Quebec City today, said, "The important investments made in university research have re-energized our campuses and given the country's top researchers — our Canada Research Chairs — the support they need to fully realize their innovative ideas."
McGill's newest Canada Research Chairs:
Mathieu Brochu
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Manufacturing Nano-Materials
Topic: Fabricating bulk nano-metallic, nano-ceramic and nano-composite materials from nano-size and nano-structured precursors and welding of these nano-materials
Maurice Chacron
Health
Canada Research Chair in Information Coding
Topic: Studying brain function, using animal models, to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from impaired sensory function and/or mental disorders
David Juncker
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Micro- and Nano-Bioengineering
Topic: Creating new micro- and nano-bioengineering technologies to advance medicine and biology
Svetlana Komarova
Health
Canada Research Chair in Osteocloast Biology
Topic: Examining the transcriptional programs that govern osteoclast function in health and disease to develop new therapies for metabolic inflammatory and metastatic bone disorders
Bhushan Nagar
Health
Canada Research Chair in Structural Biology of Signal Transduction
Topic: Determining protein structures using X-ray crystallography and other biophysical techniques
Dieter Reinhardt
Health
Canada Research Chair in Extracellular Matrix Biology
Topic: Identifying components and mechanisms of microfibril biology in health and disease by using biochemical, cell biological, genetic and proteomic technologies
Bradley Siwick
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Science
Topic: Combining lasers and modified electron microscopes to determine the atomic structure of molecules and materials during chemical reactions and structural transformations
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