Congratulations to Faculty of Science Professor Jeffrey Schall for his appointment as a Tier I Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Translating Neuroscience, and Professor Joel Zylberberg for the renewal of his Tier II CRC in Computational Neuroscience. They were among 121 new and renewed CRCs at 39 institutions across Canada announced by the Government of […]
Congratulations to Biology Professor Steven Connor, whose Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in the Synaptic Basis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders was renewed. Connor will use his CRC to focus on investigating how specific brain proteins facilitate the transmission of information between brain cells. The research aims to further understand how those proteins influence neural circuit […]
Congratulations to Professor and Canada Research Chair Peter Backx, Department of Biology, for receiving nearly $750,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Program, for his project “Understanding the Causes of Atrial Fibrillation.” The program is designed to fund ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health […]
Using his expertise in mathematics and statistics, Professor Jianhong Wu is working to model the future impacts of COVID-19 and its variants. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Faculty of Science mathematics and statistics Professor Jianhong Wu has been working non-stop with both federal and provincial agencies and a National Modelling Task Force to project the spread of the disease and […]
CANADA RESEARCH CHAIRS The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world’s top countries in research and development. The Faculty of Science is home to 11 CRCs. See the full list of CRCs at York University. YORK RESEARCH CHAIRS The York Research Chairs […]