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

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

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

Keavy Martin

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Discipline:English and Film Studies

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Keavy Martin teaches Indigenous literatures at the University of Alberta, in Treaty 6 and Métis territory. Her 2012 monograph, Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for literary criticism in English. A settler scholar committed to fostering respectful relationships between Indigenous knowledges and academia, Martin currently leads a collaborative SSHRC Insight Grant-funded project on Indigenous arts and the problem of ‘reconciliation’.

Keywords:Inuit literature, Indigenous methodologies, reconciliation, decolonization, treaty

Patrick MacDonald

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Discipline:Diabetes and Endocrinology; Cell Biology; Biophysics

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Patrick MacDonald is a leader in understanding insulin. Exceptional contributions include elucidation of the electrical, cell membrane, and cell-signaling mechanisms of pancreatic endocrine cells. Directing a human pancreas research program that supplies tissue for diabetes research nationally and internationally, Dr. MacDonald is an in-demand contributor to research consortia, serves on editorial boards of several top journals, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Islet Biology.

Keywords:diabetes, insulin, tissue, islets of Langerhans, biophysics, pharmacology, ion channels, cell biology, exocytosis, secretion, endocrinology, metabolism

Chris Andersen

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Discipline:Indigenous Studies, Sociology, History

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Chris Andersen is an internationally regarded Indigenous Studies scholar. His books, articles and chapters have contributed to a rethinking of Canada’s past, particularly relating to understanding Métis as an Indigenous people rather than “mixed ancestry” derivatives of First Nations and Inuit communities. Using a rare combination of statistical, archival and legal evidence, Andersen’s work is charting new directions in Canadian scholarship, ushering in a new era of Métis scholarship.

Keywords:Métis identity; Indigenous; statistics; urban issues