The leadership members of the hub are joining forces to prepare Canada for future pandemics.

Leadership banner CP2H

Executive board chairs

Andy Knights

Andy Knights, PhD, Executive Board Chair

Acting Vice President (Research) and Professor in the Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University

Julie Saint-Pierre

Julie Saint-Pierre, Executive Board Vice Chair

Interim Vice-President, Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa

Scientific co-leads

John C. Bell

John C. Bell, PhD, Scientific Co-Director

Senior Scientist, The Ottawa Hospital and Professor Medicine and Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Ottawa

Dr. Matthew Miller

Dr. Matthew Miller, PhD, Scientific Co-Director

Director of the M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) at McMaster

Research and clinical leadership

Arinjay Banerjee

Arinjay Banerjee, PhD

Research Scientist VIDO and uSaskatchewan

Marceline Côté

Marceline Côté, PhD

Co-Director, uOttawa Centre for Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation (CI3)

Volker Gerdts

Volker Gerdts, PhD

Director and CEO of VIDO; Professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology uSaskatchewan

Dr. Scott Halperin

Scott Halperin, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology at Dalhousie University, the Director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology (CCfV)

Carolina Ilkow

Carolina Ilkow, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Université of Ottawa, and Senior Scientist at The Ottawa Hospital

Greg Korbutt

Greg Korbutt, PhD

Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta; Scientific Director, Alberta Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility

Marc André Langlois

Marc-André Langlois, PhD

Executive Director, CoVaRRnet, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at uOttawa

Brian Litchy

Brian Lichty, PhD

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University

Jeanna Parsons Leigh

Jeanna Parsons Leigh, PhD

Killam Memorial Research Chair, Assistant Professor in the School of Health Administration at Dalhousie University

Jennifer Quizi

Jennifer Quizi, PhD

Investigator and Director, Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre, Virus Manufacturing Facility (BMC-VMF) The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Leyla Soleymani

Leyla Soleymani, PhD

Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Physics; Tier 2 CRC in Miniaturized Biomedical Devices, McMaster University

Duncan Stewart

Duncan Stewart, MD

CEO and Scientific Director of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), senior scientist in OHRI's Regenerative Medicine Program

Kednapa Thavorn

Kednapa Thavorn PhD

Senior Scientist and a Scientific Lead of Health Economics at The Ottawa Hospital’s Research Institute, Associate Professor

Dr. Gerry Wright, PhD

Dr. Gerry Wright, PhD

Executive Director of Global Nexus and a McMaster University Distinguished University Professor

Management

Ken Lawless

Ken Lawless, MSc, Director

Senior Director of the Ottawa Health and Life Sciences Innovation Hub, University of Ottawa

Darren Lawless

Darren Lawless, PhD, Director

Associate Vice-President Research, Innovation and Partnerships McMaster University

Jen Basset

Jen Bassett, PhD, CP2H Senior Manager

University of Ottawa

Sam Afkhami

Sam Afkhami, PhD, Research Scientist

McMaster University

Mohamed Ramiz

Mohamed Ramiz, BBA, Senior Project Manager, Research Programs

University of Ottawa