New Canada Research Chair awarded

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[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/FANG.jpg” caption=”Qiyin Fang “]McMaster University has been awarded another Canada Research Chair bringing its total of the prestigious award to 58. The newest chair is held by Qiyin Fang and will focus on biophotonics – a fast growing interdisciplinary field that concentrates on applying physical, chemical and engineering advances to biological and medical challenges.

Fang, who is currently at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in California, will join McMaster in September. As Canada Research Chair in Biophotonics, Fang will work on photonics-based technologies for medical applications. His research will lead to real-time minimally-invasive techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases including vulnerable artery plaques and invasive brain cancers.

McMaster was awarded 70 Canada Research Chairs based on its research funding from the federal granting agencies – the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). The Chairs Program was launched in 2000 to help Canadian universities attract and retain the best researchers and achieve research excellence in natural sciences and engineering, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.