2012 MAC Membership
Seven multidisciplinary assessment committees (MACs), each composed of a chair and up to 11 members, were convened on September 20-21, 2012. MAC members were selected for their broad expertise in research, technology development, research management and the use of research results, with calibre and experience as the CFI’s prime considerations. The CFI also strives to achieve a reasonable balance in terms of language, gender, geographic distribution, economic sector, field of study and type of institution.
For the 2012 Leading Edge Fund (LEF) and New Initiatives Fund (NIF) competition, MACs reviewed proposals and were guided by input from the expert review process. The committees were tasked with reviewing each proposal against all assessment criteria as well as the overall competition objectives relative to other competing requests.
For this competition, proposals were assigned to the MACs according to their size, based on the amount of funds requested from the CFI, as in the previous competition. Two MACs assessed proposals requesting less than $750,000 from the CFI, three MACs reviewed proposals ranging from $750,000 to $2.5 million and two MACs were charged with reviewing proposals requesting over $2.5 million from the CFI. Projects of similar size were distributed randomly among the MACs in order to enable the each committee to review a diversity of projects.
The list of MAC members is available here below. Each MAC member and expert reviewer agrees to a confidentiality agreement to ensure proposals are not discussed with anyone outside the committee. The CFI expects that the research community will not contact committee members for information on committee deliberations.
A Special MAC (S-MAC) met on October 23, 2012 to review the MAC recommendations, which exceeded the available LEF/NIF 2012 competition budget. The S-MAC aimed to ensure that the seven MACs were consistent in their recommendations and chose, among projects of comparable merit, those that most effectively support the CFI’s mandate, the objectives of the competition and represent the most effective portfolio of investments for Canada. The S-MAC focused on three key strategic considerations in recommending projects for funding:
- projects that maximize the use of the research infrastructure
- projects that enable world-class, multidisciplinary and multi-sector research and technology development activities
- projects that capitalize on areas of regional and national strengths.
In making its funding recommendations to the Board, the S-MAC was also required to ensure that at least two-thirds of the competition budget was awarded to meritorious LEF proposals.
2012 MAC Membership
|
Member |
Organization |
Country |
|
Caroline Andrew |
University of Ottawa |
Canada |
|
Luis Barreto* |
Sanofi Pasteur Ltd. |
Canada |
|
Vijay Bhargava |
UBC |
Canada |
|
Prakash Bhartia |
Natel Engineering Co Inc. |
United States |
|
Mary Bluechardt |
Memorial University |
Canada |
|
Tammy Bray |
College of Public Health and Human Sciences, |
United States |
|
Francisco O. Calvo |
National Institutes of Health |
United States |
|
Kevin Canning |
GlaxoSmithKline |
Canada |
|
Gail Cardew |
The Royal Institution |
England |
|
Carl Caron |
NRC |
Canada |
|
David Castle |
University of Edinburgh |
Scotland |
|
Krista Connell* |
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation |
Canada |
|
Richard Dasher |
Stanford University |
United States |
|
Roxanne Deslauriers |
NRC |
Canada |
|
Edward Doolittle |
First Nation University |
Canada |
|
Janie Fouke |
Nanyang Technological University |
United States |
|
Rosa Galvez |
Université Laval |
Canada |
|
Kevin Goheen |
McLarty & Co. |
Canada |
|
Jacques Hanoune |
INSERM |
France |
|
Hani Henein |
University of Alberta |
Canada |
|
John Howard |
University College Dublin |
Ireland |
|
John Howe |
Metrolinx |
Canada |
|
Michael Hrybyk |
BCNET |
Canada |
|
Kewal K. Jain |
Jain PharmaBiotech |
Switzerland |
|
Ron Kruk |
CAE Inc. |
Canada |
|
Darren Lawless |
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
Canada |
|
David Layzell |
Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, |
Canada |
|
Amy Lemay |
Vista Science & Technology Inc. |
Canada |
|
Louise Lemieux-Charles |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
|
Peter Liu |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
|
Patrick Looney |
Bookhaven National Laboratory |
United States |
|
Catalina Lopez-Correa |
Genome Quebec |
Canada |
|
Peter Loewen |
University of Manitoba |
Canada |
|
Jacques Magnan* |
Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions |
Canada |
|
Duncan Maskell |
Univeristy of Cambridge |
England |
|
Jeanine Mauzeroll |
McGill University |
Canada |
|
Tony Mayer |
University of New Hampshire |
United States |
|
David Mayes |
University of British Columbia, |
Canada |
|
Christine Maziar |
University of Notre Dame |
United States |
|
Souleyman Mboup |
University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar |
Senegal |
|
Stefan Michalowski |
OECD Global Science Forum |
France |
|
Louise Millette* |
Ecole Polytechnique |
Canada |
|
Stan Morain |
University of New Mexico |
United States |
|
Cam Mustard* |
Institute for Work and Health |
Canada |
|
Rosemary Ommer |
University of Victoria |
Canada |
|
Andre Plourde |
Carleton University |
Canada |
|
Ian Poiner |
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) |
Australia |
|
Alberto Rivera-Rentas |
National Institute of General Medical Sciences |
United States |
|
Cameron Schuler |
Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning ; |
Canada |
|
Lofollah Shafai |
University of Manitoba, |
Canada |
|
Graham Shimmield |
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences |
United States |
|
Pekka Sinervo* |
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) |
Canada |
|
Mhairi Skinner |
BLG |
Canada |
|
Hermona Soreq |
The Hebrew University Jerusalem |
Israel |
|
Sharon Straus |
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's, |
Canada |
|
Anna Stukas |
BIC Inc. |
Canada |
|
Naweed I. Syed |
University of Calgary, |
Canada |
|
Bill Tholl |
Canadian Health Leadership Network |
Canada |
|
Roy Trayhern |
Holte-MTL Business Counsel Inc |
Canada |
|
Michael R. Wertheimer |
Ecole Polytechnique |
Canada |
|
Diane Wickland |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, |
United States |
|
Mary Williams* |
Institute for Ocean Technology, NRC |
Canada |
|
Francoise Winnick |
Université de Montréal |
Canada |
|
Kimberly Woodhouse |
Queens University |
Canada |
|
James Wuest |
Université de Montréal |
Canada |
|
*Chair/Président(e) |
2012 Special MAC Membership
| Chair |
|
Ms. Chaviva Hosek Past President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) |
| Members |
|
Mme Sylvie Dillard Mr. Ken Putt Monsieur Jacques Samarut Dr. Martin Schechter Ms. Wendy Watson-Wright, Ph.D.
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