Tibor Schuster, Graduate Program Director for the Ph.D. program and Postdoctoral Fellows at the Department of Family Medicine, has received a Canada Research Chair (CRC) renewal for his research in Biostatistical Methods for Primary Health Care Research (Tier II).
In total, McGill University has received 11 renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC) from the Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP) and $13.5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Canada Research Chairs Program.
“This announcement confirms the depth and talent of the research community at McGill University,” said Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation. “We greatly appreciate the support from the federal government, which enables our researchers to make crucial discoveries that benefit all Canadians.”
The Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP) is driving a national effort to make Canada one of the world’s top countries for research and development by attracting and retaining top research talent. Chairholders are experts in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and the social sciences.
There are two types of Canada Research Chairs. Tier 1 Chairs, awarded to outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields, are valued at $200,000 annually for seven years with one opportunity for renewal. Tier 2 Chairs, valued at $100,000 annually for five years and renewable only once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. In this round, 11 McGill Chairholders were renewed.
McGill’s 2021-2 round of CRC recipients:
- Tibor Schuster, Canada Research Chair in Biostatistical Methods for Primary Health-Care Research, CIHR, Tier 2, Renewal
- Michael Hendricks, Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology and Behaviour, CIHR, Tier 2, Renewal
- Corinne Hoesli, Canada Research Chair in Cellular Therapy Bioprocess Engineering, NSERC, Tier 2, Renewal
- Arjun Krishnaswamy, Canada Research Chair in Neural Circuit Assembly and Function, CIHR, Tier 2, Renewal
- Karyn Moffatt, Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing, NSERC, Tier 2, Renewal
- Dilson Rassier, Canada Research Chair in Muscle Biophysics, CIHR, Tier 1, Renewal
- Christie Rowe, Canada Research Chair in Earthquake Geology, NSERC, Tier 2, Renewal
- Stuart Trenholm, Canada Research Chair in Neuronal Circuits of Vision, CIHR, Tier 2, Renewal
- Ipek Türeli, Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice, SSHRC, Tier 2, Renewal
- David Wachsmuth, Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance, SSHRC, Tier 2, Renewal
- Jianguo (Jeff) Xia, Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Big Data Analytics, NSERC, Tier 2, Renewal
