Nineteen chairholders have been elected to the 2016 class of the Royal Society of Canada. The newly elected fellows represent fields ranging from food security to molecular oncology. These academics are recognized for their outstanding scholarly and research achievement. Election to the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honour a scholar can receive within Canada in the arts, humanities and sciences.
The Canada Research Chairs Program congratulates the following chairholders on receiving this honour:
- Charles Weijer, Canada Research Chair in Bioethics
- Laurence Monnais, Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Pluralism
- Louise Barrett, Canada Research Chair in Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour
- Jennifer Clapp, Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability
- Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens, Canada Research Chair in North American and Comparative Legal and Cultural Identities
- Xueliang Sun, Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
- David Barber, Canada Research Chair in Arctic-System Science
- Joseph B. Rasmussen, Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Ecosystems
- Dominique Weis, Canada Research Chair in Geochemistry of the Earth’s Mantle
- Samuel Aparicio, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology
- Patricia Brubaker, Canada Research Chair in Vascular and Metabolic Biology
- Julie Forman-Kay, Canada Research Chair in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
- Jean-Pierre Julien, Canada Research Chair in Neurodegeneration
- Gordon M. Keller, Canada Research Chair in Embryonic Stem Cell Biology
- Guy Rouleau, Canada Research Chair in Genetics of the Nervous System
- Jeffery Weitz, Canada Research Chair in Thrombosis
- Graham N. George, Canada Research Chair in X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
- Jean-Claude Kieffer, Canada Research Chair in Ultra Rapid Photonics Applied to Materials and Systems
- Hanadi Sleiman, Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience
Founded in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada comprises the Academy of the Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Academy of Science. The Society’s mission is to recognize scholarly, research and artistic excellence, to advise governments and organizations, and to promote a culture of knowledge and innovation.
View a complete list of newly elected fellows and their nomination citations.