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Associate Professor of Economics href=”http://www.economics.mcmaster.ca/faculty/decicca”> Philip DeCicca
will be using his Tier II Canada Research Chair in Public Economics to study the
effectiveness of cigarette tax policy. DeCicca's research will use novel data from U.S.
and Canadian sources to directly examine casual smuggling behaviour.

David
Meyre, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Genetic Epidemiology, comes to
McMaster from the Institut de Biologie de Lille in France. The associate professor in the
Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics studies the genetic determinants of
obesity and Type 2 diabetes. His research is focused on the interaction of genes and
ethnicity, and genes and the environment, with the goal of better genetic prediction of
high risk individuals.

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Stephen McBride's Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and
Globalization will investigate how, why and with what effect public policy changes in a
globalizing world can impact and influence the economy, the environment and the
political landscape. The political scientist comes to McMaster from Simon Fraser
University.

Parminder
Raina will add a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Geroscience to his
considerable list of achievements while at McMaster. The professor from the
Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics is also the Raymond and Margaret
Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging, Director of
McMaster's Evidence-based Practice Center and Co-Director of the R. Samuel
McLaughlin Centre for Research and Education in Aging and Health. Raina is leading
the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) to bring together the capacity,
knowledge and expertise of experts in the physical, psychological and social health
domains to unlock some of the greatest mysteries of aging that have the most impact
on the health of Canadians over time.

Michael Surette
came to McMaster this fall from the University of Calgary. His Tier I Canada
Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Microbiome Research will study the relationships
between microbes and humans in health and disease. This research has the potential to
transform the ways we understand human health and prevent, diagnose and treat a
wide range of conditions.

McMaster's Canada Research Chair Renewals

Catherine Kallin's research
as a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials Theory contributed to our
fundamental understanding of high temperature superconductivity, time-reversal
symmetry breaking in superconductors and electronic correlations in reduced
dimensions. Kallin will be continuing her work in the area of strongly correlated
electron systems and will explore the possibility of chiral p-wave superconductivity in
strontium ruthenate.

Radiobiologist href=”http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/medphys/faculty/39-
carmel-e-mothersill.html”> Carmel Mothersill's renewed Canada Research
Chair in Radiobiology will afford the professor of medical physics and applied radiation
sciences with the opportunity to further explore the effects of low-dose radiation on
humans and non-human species. The first seven years of her Tier I Chair resulted in
the clarification of a number of issues concerning the exact way ionizing radiation
interacts with cell membranes to produce a stress response. Her research has moved
from in vitro to in vivo studies using fish species and mammals of relevance in the
Canadian aquatic and terrestrial environments.

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