Eric Smith

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Discipline: Neurology

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Eric Smith of the University of Calgary is an international leader in research on vascular dementia and stroke outcomes. He investigates brain small vessel disease as a contributor to cognitive decline and dementia risk, using data from prospective cohorts, population-based studies, and clinical trials. He has published more than 200 articles. He leads the Vascular Illness subteam of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, Canada’s dementia research strategy.

Keywords: stroke, dementia, epidemiology

Lynne-Marie Postovit

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Discipline: Cell Biology

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Lynne-Marie Postovit is an expert in the study of mechanisms by which cancers evade therapy and spread, with an emphasis on the tumour microenvironment. Dr. Postovit’s ground-breaking research has revealed potential therapies and biomarkers for cancer and has demonstrated how cancers hijack stem cell pathways in order to spread and survive. Her research has the potential to lead to important new therapeutics in the fight against cancer.

Keywords: cancer, stem cells, microenvironment, hypoxia, Nodal, metastasis

Candace Nykiforuk

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Discipline: Applied Public Health

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Candace Nykiforuk is an international leader in applied public health and chronic disease prevention. Her exemplary record in engaged scholarship generates scientific and real-world evidence to facilitate positive change. She partners with communities and policy-makers to conduct research on how interactions between people, policy, and place can prevent chronic disease and promote lifelong health. She holds a prestigious Applied Public Health Chair and numerous awards for outstanding contributions to research and community.

Keywords: Population Health Intervention, Health Public Policy, Chronic Disease Prevention

Artur Luczak

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Discipline: Neuroscience

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Artur Luczak investigates how interactions between hundreds of neurons underlie information processing in the brain. He has shown that neuronal activity in the cortex is constrained to stereotypical sequential patterns. He has also shown that neuronal patterns are distorted in neurological disorders such as epilepsy. In pursuit of his research goals, he seamlessly combines animal model experiments with the development of sophisticated data analysis methods and computational models to explain how electrical patterns represent information storage and processing in the brain.

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Zamaneh Kassiri

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Discipline: Cardiovascular Diseases

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Zamaneh Kassiri is an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Alberta. Her innovative, high-quality research in cardiology, in particular in the field of extracellular matrix (EMC) remodeling, has gained her an international reputation in academia. Her unraveling discoveries of the unique functions of the EMC within the heart and blood vessels have revealed its important role in heart disease, hypertension and aortic aneurysm.

Keywords: Myocardial infarction, hypertension, aortic aneurysm, cardiovascular remodeling, extracellular matrix biology

Duane Froese

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Discipline: Quaternary Geoscience

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Duane Froese is a recognized international leader in the development of multidisciplinary approaches and novel molecular methods applied to samples from ancient permafrost to reconstruct long-term environmental changes in Beringia – the area east of the ancient land-bridge that connected North America to Eurasia. His findings have overturned conventional views on the age and stability of permafrost in North America, and revised thinking on the timing of major late-Pleistocene extinction events.

Keywords: Beringia, Paleo-environmental reconstruction, Permafrost, Ancient DNA, Geochronology, Tephrochronology, Mammoth Steppe

Charlene Elliott

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Discipline: Communication Studies

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Charlene Elliott has advanced research in food marketing, media and food literacy. Her research explores new avenues of inquiry that explore how food marketing, food policy and consumer perceptions/actions factor in the prevention of disease and the promotion of health. Through innovative research, knowledge translation, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations, Dr. Elliott’s scholarship provides evidence-based solutions to prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, a current global health challenge.

Keywords: food marketing, food policy, nutrition labeling, child health, children’s food, media/food literacy

Chloë Taylor

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Discipline:Women’s & Gender Studies/Philosophy

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Chloë Taylor is a prolific scholar who has already made significant contributions in the fields of feminist philosophy, continental philosophy, and animal ethics. Taylor’s wide-ranging and widely-cited articles offer analyses of the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault and sexual crime, examine contemporary food politics, and argue for a cross-species ethics of corporeal vulnerability. Her monograph, The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault, has been printed in two editions.

Keywords:Social and political philosophy; European philosophy; animal ethics; environmental ethics; feminist theory

Shannon Dawn Scott

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Discipline:Nursing

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Shannon Scott is a leader in ensuring that research informs children’s healthcare. Outstanding contributions include leading the largest needs assessment of Canadian emergency departments, developing the first Canadian pediatric nursing textbook, and engaging healthcare consumers to co-design arts-informed knowledge tools. Leading a large knowledge translation program, Dr. Scott is an in-demand researcher who serves on several national peer-review committees and holds the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation in Children’s Health.

Keywords:child health, knowledge translation, research-to-practice, evidence-based practice

Jonathan Wayne Martin

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Discipline:Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

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Jonathan Martin is a highly cited international leader in environmental analytical chemistry. His discoveries of new organic contaminants, how they move through the environment and into organisms, and how these affect our health have impacted the way that chemicals are regulated in Canada and internationally. His expertise is applied through service to federal science committees and international scientific panels, and his mentoring has already produced a new generation of leaders.

Keywords:contaminants, environmental health, toxicology, analytical chemistry