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  • Françoise Baylis

    Françoise Baylis

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    Francoise Baylis

    Françoise Baylis is President-Elect of the Royal Society of Canada (2025-2028). As well, currently she is a member of the Governing Board of the International Science Council (2021-2025) and Vice-Chair of its Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science. She was a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance…

  • Jibran Khokhar

    Jibran Khokhar

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    Dr. Khokhar completed his undergraduate training at Queen’s University, and his PhD in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto and CAMH, under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Tyndale. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth College with Dr. Alan Green. Dr. Khokhar was recently…

  • Rhona Sinamtwa

    Rhona Sinamtwa

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    Rhona Sinamtwa

    Over the past three years, I’ve focused on strategy, research, and collaboration in sustainability initiatives, particularly in sustainable consumption, production, and building resilient communities. My experience spans think tanks, the financial industry, and educational institutions, where I’ve contributed to impactful projects and honed my ability to deliver actionable insights. As I explore opportunities, my focus…

  • Marc Shenouda

    Marc Shenouda

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    Marc Shenouda

    Nearly a decade of drug development expertise in neurodegeneration

  • David Brooks

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    David Brooks

    Dr. David Brooks is a Senior Scientist in the Tumor Immunotherapy Program at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center (PMCC), and a Professor in the Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. Dr. Brooks’ laboratory is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms and cellular interactions that regulate immune responses in chronic infections…

  • Landon Edgar

    Landon Edgar

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    Dr. Edgar is a chemical immunologist with expertise in single cell analysis technologies. He completed both a BSc (chemistry and pharmacology, 2011) and PhD (chemistry, 2016) at the University of Toronto. As a graduate student, Dr. Edgar was a member of an interdisciplinary team that developed a series of chemical probes that enabled visualization of…

  • Emmanuelle Cordat

    Emmanuelle Cordat

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    Dr. Cordat joined the Department of Physiology at the University of Alberta in 2007 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis (France). She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Cell Biology, the Canadian Society of Nephrology…

  • Michael Fish

    Michael Fish

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    Michael Fish

    Researcher at the interface of biophysical chemistry and plant molecular biology with +6 years of experience studying membrane protein targeting, structure and assembly into multi-protein complexes.

  • Linda Chelico

    Linda Chelico

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    Dr. Linda Chelico (PhD) is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology. Her research spans biochemistry, virology, and cancer biology. She earned her PhD in 2004 from the University of Saskatchewan (USask), specializing in the study of DNA repair in fungi. It was then that Chelico became amazed at the potential of…

  • George Chaconas

    George Chaconas

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    Researcher of the Lyme disease spirochete for 25 years. My lab currently studies how these organisms escape the bloodstream to cause disease (vascular escape) and how they disguise themselves to escape the host immune system (antigenic variation).