Dr Robert Young has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Genome British Columbia Research Leadership Award. The $250,000 infrastructure support award coincides with selection of Young as the Merck Frosst BC Leadership Chair in Pharmaceutical Genomics in Drug Discovery at Simon Fraser Univ by the province's Leading Edge Endowment Fund (LEEF). He is a former VP medicinal chemistry at Merck Frosst Canada. The chair is supported $2.25 million from the LEEF and $1 million from Merck Frosst Canada, among others….