Dr. Spencer Barrett, the Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Genetics, is a world leader in understanding the ways in which plants reproduce – that’s key to the study of ecology and evolutionary biology, biotechnology, and biological invasions of certain plant species.
Feeling blue. Down in the dumps. The winter blahs. Our language is full of slang to describe various degrees of depression. But what’s really going on inside a depressed brain? This is the question that drives U of T’s newest Canada Research Chair, Professor Jeffrey Meyer of psychiatry and the Centre for Addiction and Mental [...]
Daniel Drucker working on Type 2 diabetes
Daniel Drucker thinks commercialization is a good thing. The director of U of T’s Banting and Best Diabetes Centre says that commercialization and innovation provide opportunities to enhance his everyday work. For Drucker, that means putting his findings to work in possible new treatments for Type 2 diabetes. continue
Igor Jurisica of Computer Science and Medicial Biophysics and the Canada Research Chair in Integrative Computational Biology, develops complex algorithms to understand cancer.
Jennifer Ryan is mapping memory loss
Having trouble remembering what’s on your grocery list? How about putting a name to the face of the person you’re standing next to at a party? We tend to accept that a certain amount of memory loss is normal, especially as we age. But what’s actually happening in your brain when you’re standing blankly in [...]
Canada Research Chair Mohammad Fadel studies Islamic law using the methods traditionally applied to secular legal systems.
Program builds Canada’s reputation as global leader
U of T gained four new Canada Research Chairs and saw 17 existing chairs renewed in an announcement made at the University of Ottawa by John Baird, minister of the environment, on behalf of Jim Prentice, minster of energy and minister responsible for the Canada Research Chairs program. The new chairs are Peter Newman, social [...]
