Eight new Canada Research Chairs international stars

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November 12, 2004

From Japan to Belgium and Australia to the U.K., McMaster's eight new Canada Research Chairs are some of the world's best and brightest.

With an announcement today in Vancouver, McMaster now has 54 chairholders dedicated to advancing technology and improving the health of Canadians. Prime Minister Paul Martin, along with industry minister David Emerson, made the announcement.

The Canada Research Chairs program, launched in 2000, was designed to help Canada attract and retain the best and brightest researchers from around the world.

According to McMaster's Mamdouh Shoukri, vice-president of research and international affairs, the program is doing just that. “This program continues to increase our research capacity and gives us the ability to both recruit at an international level and retain our international stars. Of these eight new chairs, five were international recruits from Japan, Australia, Belgium, the US and the UK.”

McMaster's new chairholders include:

  • Mohit Bhandari, Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Trauma and Surgical Outcomes, is looking to uncover novel strategies to improve outcomes following orthopaedic injury.
  • Tim Davidson, Canada Research Chair in Communications, is using modern optimization theory to develop innovative design techniques for wireless communications.
  • Antoine Deza, Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization, is researching combinatorial structure, which will lead to effective algorithms to solve large-scale problems arising from telecommunications networks. (Japan)
  • John Eikelboom, Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, is studying the mechanisms and genetic determinants of antiplatelet drug resistance and improving its diagnosis and treatment. (Australia)
  • Bhagwati Gupta, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Biology, is looking at the regulation and evolution of gene networks during cell proliferation and differentiation. (US)
  • Johan Kips, Canada Research Chair in Respiratory Diseases, is investigating the causes of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (Belgium)
  • Thia Kirubarajan, Canada Research Chair in Information Fusion, is developing advanced multi-source information fusion algorithms for large-scale systems.
  • Tom Maibaum, Canada Research Chair in the Foundations of Software Engineering, is proposing appropriate engineering methods of software and system specification and design to ensure software development more disciplined and dependable. (UK)

For a complete list of McMaster's 54 chairholders, go to http://www.chairs.gc.ca