uOttawa General Updates

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It has been announced that Canada has recruited another 63 top global researchers under the recent Federal program to do so.

uOttawa gets seven of them.

Arctic resilience and climate change
Gabriel Bowen
Bowen joins uOttawa from the University of Utah as Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Applied Isotope Science. It aims to strengthen Canada’s capacity to address climate change, protect water resources and support evidence-based decisions. His work will also enhance tools for Arctic monitoring and secure supply chains, helping to tackle priorities around environmental stewardship, resource security and economic resilience.

Jennifer Spence
Spence is arriving from Harvard University to be the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Arctic Governance and Community Resilience. The chair will help strengthen Canada’s role in the Arctic at a time of growing environmental, geopolitical and security challenges. Working with partners, she’ll promote Indigenous and northern leadership, community resilience and international collaboration, and advance Canadian interests in the North.

Manufacturing and advanced materials
Federico Rosei
Drawn to uOttawa from the University of Trieste in Italy, Rosei will serve as Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Emerging Sustainable Materials for the Energy Transition. He’ll help accelerate Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy by developing advanced materials for next-generation clean-energy technologies. His research will strengthen Canada’s innovation ecosystem, support clean economic growth and help develop the highly qualified workforce needed for the energy transition.

Health and biotechnology
Kevin Hall
Hall is currently Senior Director and Clinical Scientist at AstraZeneca, following a 21-year research career at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He has been selected for the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Nutrition and Metabolic Health at the University of Ottawa. His proposed research program would generate evidence to improve the prevention and treatment of obesity and cardiometabolic disease, conditions that affect millions of people across Canada. The research aims to inform clinical care and public policy and contribute to a more sustainable health-care system.

Ryan McNeil
McNeil was recruited from Yale University to serve as Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Equity-Oriented Responses to the Drug Toxicity and Housing Crises. He’ll advance solutions to some of Canada’s most pressing public health and social challenges. By informing policies and programs that reduce harms from substance use and housing instability, his work will support healthier, safer and more equitable communities.

Olga Smirnova
Smirnova comes to us from the Max Born Institute in Germany to become the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Ultrafast Chirality for Health, Environment and Quantum Technologies. She’ll advance Canadian leadership in quantum and photonic technologies, and develop tools with applications in health care, pharmaceutical development and environmental monitoring. Her work will make Canada more competitive in strategic technology sectors and help drive future innovation.

Cassian Yee
A leading researcher from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in the U.S., Yee will be the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Next-Generation Translational T-Cell Immunotherapies. This chair will put Canada at the forefront of cancer immunotherapy by accelerating the development of innovative, made-in-Canada cell therapies. His research will strengthen the country’s biomanufacturing and life sciences capacity and improve treatment options for patients facing some of the hardest cancers to treat.