Temerty Medicine Scholars Awarded New or Renewed Canada Research Chairs
New Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs Denise Belsham, Scott Gray-Owen, Deborah O'Connor and Burton Yang
Thirty-four scholars at the University of Toronto have been awarded new or renewed Canada Research Chairs — 19 of whom are affiliated with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
First established in 2000, the Canada Research Chair Program invests approximately $311 million per year to attract and retain a diverse cadre of world-class researchers in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences who will reinforce academic research and training excellence in Canadian postsecondary institutions.
For a full list of U of T new and renewed Canada Research Chairs, please see this U of T News story by Scott Anderson.
New Temerty Medicine Canada Research Chairs
Denise Belsham in the department of physiology, Tier 1 in neuroendocrinology.
Maged Goubran at the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre and the department of medical biophysics, Tier 2 in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience.
Scott Gray-Owen in the department of molecular genetics, Tier 1 in infectious immunopathogenesis.
Muhammad Husain at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the department of psychiatry, Tier 2 in treatment innovation in mood disorders.
Courtney Jones at the University Health Network and the department of medical biophysics, Tier 2 in leukemia stem cell metabolism.
Andrea Knight at the Hospital for Sick Children and the department of paediatrics, Tier 2 in mental health and chronic disease of childhood.
Sushant Kumar at the University Health Network and the department of medical biophysics, Tier 2 in genomic medicine.
J. Rafael Montenegro Burke in the Donnelly Centre, Tier 2 in functional metabolomics and lipidomics.
Deborah O'Connor in the department of nutritional sciences, Tier 1 in human milk and infant nutrition.
Vijay Ramaswamy at the Hospital for Sick Children and the department of paediatrics, Tier 2 in pediatric neuro-oncology.
Gregory Schwartz at the University Health Network and the department of medical biophysics, Tier 2 in bioinformatics and computational Biology.
Jay Shaw in the department of physical therapy, Tier 2 in responsible health innovation.
Anastasia Tikhonova at the University Health Network and the department of medical biophysics, Tier 2 in stem cell niche biology.
Burton Yang at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology, Tier 1 in cardiac remodeling.
Darren Yuen at Unity Health Toronto and the department of medicine, Tier 2 in fibrotic injury.
Renewed Temerty Medicine Canada Research Chairs
Myron Cybulsky at the University Health Network and the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology, Tier 1 in arterial wall biology and atherogenesis.
Julie Forman-Kay in the Hospital for Sick Children and the department of biochemistry, Tier 1 in intrinsically disordered proteins.
Jean-Philippe Julien at the Hospital for Sick Children and the department of biochemistry, Tier 2 in structural immunology.
Haley Wyatt in the department of biochemistry, Tier 2 in mechanisms of genome instability.
