In September and November 2007, Jim Prentice, the Canadian Minister of Industry announced the appointment of nine McGill University professors to the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program:
- Tho Le-Ngoc, broadband access communications
- Stéphanie Lehoux, cardiovascular physiology
- Gergely Lukacs, molecular and cellular biology of cystic fibrosis and other conformational diseases
- Salah El Mestikawy, neurobiology
- Audrey Moores, green chemistry
- Vassilios Papadopoulos, biochemical pharmacology
- Thomas Quinn, soft tissue biophysics
- Amir Raz, cognitive neuroscience of attention
- Barbara Sherwin, hormones, brain and cognition
Seven McGill CRCs were renewed:
- Jorge L. Armony, affective neuroscience
- Michel Biron, Québécois and francophone literature
- Derek Bowie, receptor pharmacology
- Sylvain Coulombe, non-thermal plasma processing
- Elaine C. Davis, anatomy and cell biology
- Stephen M. Saideman, international security and ethnic conflict
- Thomas Schlich, history of medicine
The 16 CRCs have a value of $13.4-million. The Canada Foundation for Innovation will also invest over $2-million in infrastructure essential to the work done by the nine new Chairs. The Government of Canada created the CRC program in 2000; the program’s goal is to help make Canada one of the world’s top five countries for research and development by establishing 2,000 research professorships by 2008.