McGill adds to the ranks of CRCs

University researchers awarded 18 Canada Research Chairs

Eighteen leading McGill researchers have been awarded new or renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC), announced recently by the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), and the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development.

The CRC program was created to enable Canadian universities to attract and retain established and emerging world-class researchers. McGill research projects that will benefit from the new funds include research into infectious diseases, particle physics and advanced materials for micro and nanosystems.

Of McGill's 18 CRCs (the second-largest number of CRC awards given to a Canadian university in this competition) McGill received seven Tier-1 and 11 Tier-2 Chairs, including 14 renewals, and four new Chairs for a total of $15,300,000. The decade-old federal program will invest $165.5 million in 187 newly awarded or renewed Canada Research Chairs at 44 Canadian universities this year.

The $15.3 million awarded to McGill for the four new chairs and renewal of 14 others includes $480,000 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for research infrastructure in support of three of the projects.

McGill's latest Canada Research Chairs are:

Antoine Bechara
Canada Research Chair in Decision Neuroscience
Health, Tier 1, $1 400,000, NEW
(CFI funding of $140,000)

John Dalton
Canada Research Chair in Infectious Diseases
Health, Tier 1, $1 400,000, NEW
(CFI funding of $200,000)

Jay Kaufman
Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities
Health, Tier 1, $1 400,000, NEW

Alan Spatz
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Pathology
Health, Tier 1, $1 400,000, NEW
(CFI funding of $140,000)

Ehab Abouheif
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Evolution
Natural Sciences and Engineering Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Scott Bohle
Canada Research Chair in Chemical Biology
Natural Sciences and Engineering, Tier 1, $1,400,000, renewal

Jean- François Cloutier
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neurobiology
Health, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

David R. Colman
Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience
Health, Tier 1, $1 400,000, renewal

Ali Pejmun Haghighi
Canada Research Chair in Drosophilia Neurobiology
Health, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Arnold Kristof
Canada Research Chair in Pulmonary-Critical Care
Health, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Jacek Majewski
Canada Research Chair in Statistical Genetics
Health, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Ashok K. Malla
Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis
Health, Tier 2, $1 400,000, renewal

Julio Cesar Martinez-Trujillo
Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience
Health, Tier 2, $500,000

Christopher Pack
Canada Research Chair in Neurophysiology of Vision
Health, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Edward Ruthazer
Canada Research Chair in Neural Circuit Development
Health, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Simon Tran
Canada Research Chair in Craniofacial Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering
Health, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Brigitte Vachon
Canada Research Chair in Particle Physics
Natural Sciences and Engineering, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal

Srikar Vengallatore
Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Micro-and Nanosystems
Natural Sciences and Engineering, Tier 2, $500,000, renewal