Meet our CRCs
Our chairholders contribute significantly to the national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top countries in research and development. They improve our depth of knowledge and the quality of life of Canadians.
Chairholders
Lori Beaman
Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change
Emmanuelle Bernheim
Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Access to Justice
Shawn Beug
Canada Research Chair in Apoptosis in Cancer and Immunity
Azzedine Boukerche
Canada Research Chair in Large-Scale Distributed Interactive Simulation Systems and Mobile Computing and Networking
Kym Boycott
Canada Research Chair in Rare Disease Precision Health
Robert Boyd
Canada Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics
Lionel Briand
Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance
Anne Broadbent
Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications and Cryptography
Kelly Bronson
Canada Research Chair in Science and Society
Jennifer Brunet
Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity Promotion and Cancer Prevention
Céline Castets-Renard
Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence
Laurie Chan
Canada Research Chair in Toxicology and Environmental Health
Simon Chen
Canada Research Chair in Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Hang Chi
Canada Research Chair in Quantum Electronic Devices and Circuit
Marceline Côté
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Virology and Antiviral Therapeutics
Constance Crompton
Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities
Adam Damry
Canada Research Chair in Synthetic Biology
Jackie Dawson
Canada Research Chair in the Human and Policy Dimensions of Climate Change
Zakia Djaoud
Canada Research Chair in Virus-Host Interactions
Ksenia Dolgaleva
Canada Research Chair in Integrated Photonics
Damien D’Amours
Canada Research Chair in Chromatin Dynamics and Genome Architecture
Khaled El Emam
Canada Research Chair in Medical Artificial Intelligence
Melike Erol-Kantarci
Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Next-Generation Wireless Networks
Josephine Etowa
Canada Research Chair in Advancing Black Women’s Health in Canada
Giulia Fadda
Canada Research Chair in Inflammation, Infection and Immunity
Michael Geist
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law
Augusto Gerolin
Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence at the Interface of Chemistry and Mathematics
Mary-Ellen Harper
Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Metabolic Health
Ghassan Jabbour
Canada Research Chair in Engineered Advanced Materials and Devices
Arezu Jahani-Asl
Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology of Disease
Hawre Jalal
Canada Research Chair in Health Economics
Ebrahim Karimi
Canada Research Chair in Structured Waves and Quantum Communication
Mireille Khacho
Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Dynamics and Regenerative Medicine
Julie Lee-Yaw
Canada Research Chair in Global Change Ecology and Macroecology
Benoit Lessard
Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials and Organic Electronics
Hanns Lochmüller
Canada Research Chair in Neuromuscular Genomics and Health
Jeff Lundeen
Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics
Erin Maloney
Canada Research Chair in Academic Achievement and Well-being
Jason Millar
Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Joseph Moran
Canada Research Chair in Systems Chemistry
Daniel Myran
Canada Research Chair in Social Accountability
Thirusha Naidu
Canada Research Chair in Equity in Global Medical Education
Stephen Newman
Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Catalysis
Mireille Ouimet
Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Metabolism and Cell Biology
Ana Maria Peredo
Canada Research Chair in Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination
Maxime Rousseaux
Canada Research Chair in Personalized Genomics of Neurodegeneration
Armen Saghatelyan
Canada Research Chair in Postnatal Neurogenesis
Isabelle Salle
Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics
Juan (Tito) Scaiano
Canada Research Chair in Applied Photochemistry
Teresa Scassa
Canada Research Chair in Information Law
Melanie J. Sekeres
Canada Research Chair in Contribution of Neurocognitive Functioning to Brain Health
Paria Shirani
Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity
Adam Shuhendler
Canada Research Chair in Chemical Biology
Deborah Siegal
Canada Research Chair in Anticoagulant Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
Julie St-Pierre
Canada Research Chair in Cancer Metabolism
William Stanford
Canada Research Chair in Integrative Stem Cell Biology
Albert Stolow
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Photonics
Giorgia Sulis
Canada Research Chair in Communicable Diseases Epidemiology
Christopher Sun
Canada Research Chair in Data Analytics for Health Systems Transformation
Bernard Thébaud
Canada Research Chair in Lung Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration
Katalin Toth
Canada Research Chair in Neuronal Signalling
Tracy Vaillancourt
Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention
Brett Walker
Canada Research Chair in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Marine Biogeochemistry
Monnica Williams
Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities
David Murakami Wood
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies
Yan Xu
Canada Research Chair in Thrombosis
Carole Yauk
Canada Research Chair in Genomics and the Environment
Vignan Yogendrakumar
Canada Research Chair in Stroke