2007-2008

• Dr. Nahum Sonenberg has won the 2008 Gairdner Foundation International Award for his "pioneering discoveries in cellular translation of genetic information".

• Dr. Peter Braun was one of three McGill recepients of the CAME Certificate of Merit Award for Medical Teaching.
• Dr. Maria Ferraiuolo (graduate student from Dr. Sonenberg's lab) has been awarded the Gordon A. Maclachlan Prize. This prize is given to an outstanding McGill graduate receiving a graduate degree in 2006-2007 in any discipline of the Biological and Health Sciences, in recognition of her exemplary academic record, excellence of the thesis and the significance of the research. (PLACE IN PROPER YEAR)
• Dr. Desiree Fong (Dr. Albert Berghuis's lab) is the recipient of the 2007 Award of Excellence of the Academy of Great Montrealers. In collaboration with the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, this award is to recognize outstanding contributions of Montreal universities, their affiliated schools and specialized institutions to the economic, scientific, social and cultural development of Montreal.
• Dr. Albert Berghuis was appointed full Professor.
• The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) is pleased to announce that Magdalena Korczynska (Berghuis Lab) has been selected as a recipient of a 2008 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Award. The Ludo Frevel Crystallographic Scholarship is an award to support the education and research program of promising graduate students in crystallography-related fields.
• Dr. Vassilios Papadopoulos (Director, Research Institute of the MUHC) and Dr. Qutayba Hamid (Meakins-Christie Laboratories) were made associate members in our department.

• Dr. Imed Gallouzi (June 1, 2007) was successful in being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

2006-2007

• Dr. Sonenberg received the 2007 Katharine Berkan Judd Award Lectureship from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
• Dr. Nahum Sonenberg has been chosen to receive the 2007 Roche Diagnostics Award from the Canadian Society of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology, which recognizes outstanding achievement in research in one or more of the fields of biochemistry, molecular or cellular biology undertaken in Canada by a Canadian Scientist.
• Dr. Nicole Beauchemin was named to the Faculty Honour List for Educational Excellence in recognition of her contributions to teaching in the Faculty of Medicine.
• Dr. Tarik Möröy and Dr. Alex Therien were appointed adjunct members.
• Dr. Reza Salavati from the Institute of Parasitology and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics was made an associate member of our department.
• Dr. Jose Teodoro was appointed assistant professor in Biochemistry and the McGill Cancer Centre.
• Dr. Josée Dostie was appointed assistant professor in Biochemistry.
• Dr. Martin Latterich and Dr. Anny Fortin were appointed adjunct members.
• Dr. Robert Scott Kiss from the McGill University Hospital Centre was made an associate member of our Department.
• Dr. Matthias Götte from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology was made an associate member of our Department.
• Dr. Thomas Duchaine was appointed assistant professor in the McGill Cancer Centre and the Department of Biochemistry.
• Drs. Nahum Sonenberg and Erin Schurr, an associate member, McGill University researchers have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholars in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in biomedicine.
• Dr. Michel Tremblay has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

2005-2006

• Michel Tremblay was awarded the Jeanne and J.-Louis Lévesque Chair in Cancer Research.
• Dr. Nahum Sonenberg was elected to the prestigious Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
• Maria Colonna, Administrative Officer, won the 2006 Ninth Annual Anne McCormick Award for Excellence in the Faculty of Medicine. This award recognizes excellence in job performance by support staff.
• Dr. Jacques Genest from the McGill University Health Centre was made an associate member of our Department.
• Dr. Ted Meighen and Dr. Cliff Stanners both receive the title of Professor Emeritus.
• Dr. Kalle Gehring was appointed full professor.
• Dr. Bhushan Nagar was appointed assistant professor in our Department.
• Both Dr. Ted Meighen and Dr. Cliff Stanners retire this year.
• Dr. Maya Saleh from the McGill University Hospital Centre was made an associate member of our Department.
• Magdalena Korczynska from the Albert Berghuis lab was awarded the ACA-IUCr Poster Prize for best poster from a graduate student form the North American continent.
• Leo Lin, from Ted Meighen’s lab, won the Governor General’s Gold Medal for top graduate in Natural Sciences and Engineering. This award was based on academic record, excellent thesis and significance of research. He also won the Gordon a. Maclachlan Prize and the Thomas Haliburton Henry Award for most outstanding McGill graduate receiving a Ph.D. in Biological and Health Sciences.

2004-2005

• Dr. John Silvius was awarded the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
• Dr. Nahum Sonenberg receives the $100,000 Killam Prize for the health sciences.
• Colin Lister, from Nahum Sonenberg’s lab, is the winner of the McGill’s Principal’s Award for Administrative and Support Staff in the Technical category.
• Dr. Imed Gallouzi was awarded a Tier II Canada Research Chair.
• Dr. Jerry Pelletier and Dr. Alain Nepveu were both made James McGill Professors.
• Dr. Philip Branton was named member of the Advisory Committee on Research, Alberta Cancer Board.
• Dr. Jason Young was appointed an Assistant Professor in our Department.
• Dr. Katherine Cianflone was appointed adjunct member. She received a Chercheur Senior, Canadian Lipoprotein Conference. She was also made a Canada Research Chair, Senior (Tier I).
• Dr. Mark Featherstone, an associate member and Simon Wing an adjunct member, received the Chercheur-National du Fond de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec.
• Dr. Charles Scriver, an associate member, UK Medical Research Council/Dept. of Health Visiting Fellow in Genetics in Health Care.
• Dr. Peter Siegel, was made an associate member in our Department. He received the Harold E. Johns Award (Biomedical Research Category); the CCS/NCIC research scientist award, Department of Medicine; the Simone and Morris Fast Award for Oncology, Department of Medicine.
• Dr. Martine Raymond, from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), was made an adjunct member in the Department.
• Nadeem Siddiqui, graduate student in Kalle Gehring’s lab, took the gold medal in the student poster competition at the BioNorth 2004 conference.
• Ahmad Mirza from the Albert Berghuis lab received the 2005 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship from the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD).
• Jasmine Abella from Morag Park’s lab, won the top honour for best oral presentation at the 5th Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference.
• Sabina Paglialung (Cianflone lab), won first prize at the 5th Annual McGill Biomedical Graduation Conference for her Research Proposal Poster Presentation.
• Karine Turcotte (Philippe Gros lab), won the Presidential Student Award for the Best Student Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Leukocyte Biology.

2003-2004

• Fourteen full members and five associate members of the Department have competitive salary awards from per-reviewed agencies.
• Dr. Morag Park received the Jeanne Manery-Fisher Memorial Lectureship for the CSBMCB.
• Dr. Alain Nepveu was appointed full professor in the Department.
• Dr. Albert Berghuis was awarded a Tier I Canada Research Chair in structural biology.
• Dr. William Muller received the Merck-Frosst Award for Excellence in research, Department of Medicine and a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology.
• David Breckenridge, a graduate student from the laboratory of Gordon Shore, won the Governor-General of Canada’s Gold Medal for his Ph.D. thesis.
• Dr. Rose Johnstone received the France Canada Visiting Scientist Exchange program, joint award from CIHR and Inserm France.
• Dr. Charles Scriver, an associate member, was the recipient of the founders Award, CCMG, Edmonton, Alberta. He was also appointed as Annual Clinical Science Lecturer, Karolinska Institute.
• Dr. Jacques Drouin, adjunct member, received the Eli Lilly Award from the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
• Dr. Maxime Bouchard was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and McGill Cancer Centre.
• Dr. Martin Latterich from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology was made an associate member.
• Dr. Karen Meerovitch from Advance Pharma was appointed an adjunct member.
• Dr. John Bergeron, Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and an associate member of our Department, received the McLaughlin Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.
• Caroline Baril, Nadeem Siddiqi, Sathesh Bhat, Jaigi Mathai and Nadia Dube, five biochemistry graduate students took prizes at the 4th Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference.
• The Bergeron and Thomas labs were featured in the Gazette, May 19, 2004, for their publication on a central enzyme (UDP-glucose, a glycoprotein glucosyltransferase that can detect areas of disorder (misfolding) and activity of proteins in cells. This discovery could help provide targets for treating degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cystic fibrosis.

2002-2003

• Dr. Nahum Sonenberg has been awarded the Robert L. Noble prize of the National Cancer Institute of Canada.
• Dr. Jacques Drouin, an adjunct member of the Department was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
• Dr. Xiang-Jiao Yang, an associate member, was awarded the Harold E. Johns award from the NCIC.
• Dr. Rhoda Blostein was the winner of the 2003 Women of Distinction award from the Women’s Y.
• Dr. Morag Park received a Dawson Scholar award from McGill University.
• Dr. Cliff Stanners received the Jeanne and J.-Louis Lévesque Chair of Cancer Research.
• Dr. Arnim Pause was made an associate professor. Arnim received the Max-Planck Five Year Endowment, Max-Planck Society and the Canada Foundation for Innovation Award for Infrastructure.
• Dr. Michel Tremblay received the McGill Medical Ambassador, and also Ambassador from the University of Sherbrooke.
• Dr. Karine Auclair was made an associate member of our department. She also received the "Programme Strategique de Professeurs-Chercheurs" from FQRNT.
• Dr. Katherine Cianflone, associate member, received the Sara Louise King Award, Cardiology Department and the Dedicated Service Award, Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation.
• Maureen Caron, our student affairs officer, won the Principal's Staff Award.

2001-2002

• Dr. Philip Branton, a former Chair of the department who is the Director of the Cancer Institute of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
• Drs. Morag Park, Jerry Pelletier, Nicole Beauchemin, Michel Tremblay were all made full professor.
• Dr. Morag Park was appointed the Sal and Diane Guerrera Chair in Cancer Genetics.
• Drs. Albert Berghuis, Imed Gallouzi, William Muller and David Thomas were all awarded Canada Research Chairs together with the associated Canadian Foundation for Innovation awards.
• Dr. Philippe Gros was appointed as a Distinguished Investigator of the CIHR and recently as a James McGill professor.
• Drs. Jerry Pelletier and Morag Park were appointed as Senior Investigators of the CIHR.
• Anne-Claude Gingras, a graduate student from the Sonenberg laboratory, recently graduated and was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal and the Prix d'excellence de l'Académie des grands Montréalais.
• Dr. Nahum Sonenberg was made a James McGill professor, a Distinguished investigator of the CIHR, and a Howard Hughes International Fellow.
• Dr. David Thomas was the principal investigator on the successful CFI award for $43M for the new Life Sciences Building.
• Dr. Prabhat Arya from the NRC was made an adjunct member of our Department.
• Dr. Michael Hallett from the School of Computer Science was made an associate Member of our Department

2000-2001

• Dr. David Thomas, FRSC — new chair.
• Dr. Philip Branton, first director of the Cancer Institute of the CIHR.
• Dr. Peter Braun acted as interim chair of the Department.
• Dr. Nahum Sonenberg and Dr. Philippe Gros were appointed as Distinguished Investigators of the CIHR and Jerry Pelletier and Morag Park (Associate member) were appointed as Senior Investigators.
• Dr. Kalle Gehring won an award as Chercheur-boursier of the FRSQ.
• Dr. David Thomas was awarded a Canada Research Chair.
• Drs. Branton, Braun, Gehring and Thomas were awarded CIHR, NSERC grants and contracts amounting to $1.5M over the next 3 years. Dr. Jerry Pelletier has been awarded a $1.2M total Terry Fox New Frontiers Initiative grant from the NCI for novel approaches for targeting RNA with small molecules, in a collaboration with Masad Dahma (Chemistry, McGill) and Prabhat Arya (SIMS, NRC, Ottawa).
• Dr. Bill Muller has been offered a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the Molecular Oncology Group and will be cross-appointed to the Biochemistry Department.
• Dr. Michel Tremblay, Dr. Morag Park and Dr. Nicole Beauchemin were all promoted to full professor.
• Dr. Enrico Purisima from the NRC was made an adjunct member of our Department
• Alex Geoffrey Therien, a graduate student from the Blostein laboratory, was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal and the Prix d'excellence de l'Académie des grands Montréalais.

1999-2000

• Dr. Rhoda Blostein was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Drs. Alice Vrielink and Kalle Gehring were successful in being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
• Dr. Michel Tremblay has been selected as Director of the McGill Cancer Centre.
• Dr. Philippe Gros named a member of the new CIHR Governing Council.
• Dr. John Bergeron, an Associate Member and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill was named as the ninth Thomson Lecturer of the Department of Biochemistry.
• Dr. Vincent Giguère was promoted to Full Professor.
• Dr. Marc Therrien was made an adjunct member of our Department.

1998-1999

• Dr. Michel Tremblay received considerable acclaim for generating, in collaboration with colleagues at Merck-Frosst, a protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B 'knockout' mouse that will serve as a critical model for studies on diabetes and may aid in the development of pharmaceuticals related to weight control. Dr. Tremblay also spearheaded a CFI proposal that will bring in some funds to the Faculty. In addition, Dr. Tremblay and Dr. Morag Park obtained seed funding to launch "Tyrogene", a research and development company.
• Drs. Philippe Gros and Morag Park each were the recipients of major special research grant awards. Philippe was granted a Burroughs Welcome Fund New Initiative Grant for work in malaria. Morag was the recipient of a special grant from the Montreal Beast Cancer Foundation which will fund a functional genomics group in breast cancer that also includes Drs. Jerry Pelletier, Gordon Shore, Vincent Giguère, Xiang-Jiao Yang, and Alain Nepveu.
• Dr. Annette Herscovics was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada last year.

1997-1998

• Dr. Jerry Pelletier received the W.E. Rawls Prize from the National Cancer Institute of Canada
• Dr. Michel Tremblay was awarded a Senior FRSQ Chercheur Boursier.