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
Xiaoyi Bao
Canada Research Chair in Fibre Optics and Photonics
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
Kelly Bronson
Canada Research Chair in Science and Society
Jennifer Brunet
Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity Promotion and Cancer Prevention
Laurie Chan
Canada Research Chair in Toxicology and Environmental Health
Kin Chan
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Basis of Cancer Mutagenesis
Simon Chen
Canada Research Chair in Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Marceline Côté
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Virology and Antiviral Therapeutics
Constance Crompton
Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities
Jackie Dawson
Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society and Policy
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
Michael Geist
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law
Ghassan Jabbour
Canada Research Chair in Engineered Advanced Materials and Devices
Hawre Jalal
Canada Research Chair in Health Economics
Ebrahim Karimi
Canada Research Chair in Structured Light
Mireille Khacho
Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Dynamics and Regenerative Medicine
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
Tricia McGuire-Adams
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Ganandawisiwin (Good Health) Sovereignties
Jason Millar
Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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
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
Adam Shuhendler
Canada Research Chair in Chemical Biology
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
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
Carole Yauk
Canada Research Chair in Genomics and the Environment