Dr Michael Hayden

Dr Michael Hayden has been awarded this year's Priz Galien Canada award for research to acknowledge his contributions to biopharmaceutical research. The award was judged by an eight-person jury of university and industrial scientists in the pharmaceutical field and was presented November 15th at a gala event in Montreal. Hayden was chosen for his pioneering development of predictive testing for Huntington's disease and his identification of genes for eight other disorders. He is the Killam professor of medical genetics at the Univ of British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in human genetics and molecular medicine. Hayden is also director of the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and senior scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute at the BC Children's Hospital….

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the 6th Annual Canadian Health Research Awards honouring nine leading Canadian health researchers. They are: Dr Francis Plummer (CIHR Michael Smith Prize in Health Research), chief science advisor and scientific DG at the Public Health Agency's National Microbiology Laboratory; Dr Peter Singer (CIHR Michael Smith Prize in Health Research), senior scientist, McLaughlin Rotman Centre, University Health Network and professor of medicine at the Univ of Toronto; Dr Michael Reed (Peter Lougheed/CIHR New Investigator Award), assistant professor, McGill Univ faculty of medicine; Dr Wilbert Keon (CIHR Distinguished Leadership Award), senator, Senate of Canada; Dr Thomas Kerr (CIHR Knowledge Translation Award), research scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and assistant professor, Univ of British Columbia's department of medicine; Dr Ron Zarnicke (CIHR Partnership Award), executive director, Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute); Pamela Kolopack (CIHR Douglas Kinsella Doctoral Award), graduate student, Univ of Toronto; Dr Filio Billia (CIHR BIOTECanada Scherling Plough Canada Fellowship), clinician-scientist trainee, University Health Network); and, Bechara Saab (CIHR Synapse Youth Mentorship Award), PhD student, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute....