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CFI Invests in Research Infrastructure for Award-Winning Researchers

April 29, 2005

CFI Invests in Research Infrastructure for Award-Winning Researchers

OTTAWA, April 29, 2005—Today, Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), announced an investment of $988,661 under the CFI’s Career Awards. This infrastructure investment by the CFI will support the work of the six 2005 Science and Engineering Research Canada (NSERC) Steacie Fellows.

“The CFI is proud to be associated with this prestigious NSERC initiative,” said Dr. Phillipson. “The investments we are announcing today will provide these promising and deserving young researchers with the tools they need to better compete with the best in the world.”

“This is a good example of how the different agencies of the government can cooperate to provide the country’s best researchers with what they need to advance their disciplines and push back the frontiers of knowledge,”said Tom Brzustowski, President of NSERC.

This is the fourth year that the CFI is partnering with the federal funding agencies in supporting leading researchers, providing institutions with the infrastructure they need to carry out this world-class research.

Under the Career Awards, the CFI Board of Directors approved infrastructure investments of $988,661 for the following researchers:

 

  • Roberto Abraham (University of Toronto) –First Light in the Universe: Probing the first galaxies with an infrared-scanning tunable filter ($113,442)
  • Neil Branda (Simon Fraser University) –300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer for Materials and Health Sciences ($137,043)
  • Michael Doebeli (University of British Columbia) –Evolution of diversity in bacterial microcosms: studying the genetic, physiological and ecological mechanisms of adaptive diversification ($160,585)
  • Jacques Marchand (Université Laval) -Étude des mécanismes fondamentaux qui gouvernent le comportement des matériaux cimentaires exposés à des environnements chimiquement agressifs ($206,384)
  • Andrew K. White (York University) –Biophysical Analysis of Viral RNA and Proteins ($216,287)
  • Peter Zandstra (University of Toronto) –CSCB: Center for Stem Cell Bioengineering ($154,920)

     

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The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. The CFI's mandate is to strengthen the capacity of Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals, and other non-profit research institutions to carry out world-class research and technology development that benefits Canadians.

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Canada Foundation for Innovation
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