Review Panels for the 2010 Competition


Phase 1 Review Panel
Phase 2 Review Panel

Phase 1 Review Panel

Names Titles
Jeffrey Dawson, Chair
Health and Related Life Science and Technologies Panel
Professor Emeritus and Associate Dean
School of Medicine
Duke University
USA
Ian de la Roche, Chair
Natural Resources and Energy Panel
President and CEO
FPInnovations
Canada
Larry Milligan, Chair
Environmental Sciences and Technologies Panel
Professor Emeritus and former
Vice-President of Research
University of Guelph
Canada
Gabriel Silberman, Chair
Information and Communications Technologies Panel
Senior Vice-President and Director
CA Labs
USA
Joseph D. Wright, Chair
Management Panel

Former President and CEO
Paprican
Canada

Don Aitkin

Former Vice-Chancellor and President,
University of Canberra
Foundation Chairman,
Australian Research Council
Australia

Zeev Barzilai Chairman and CEO
A TO Z Group Ltd.
Israel
Michel Béland Advisor to the Director General of Research
Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate
Environment Canada
Canada
Gustaaf Borghs Director, Center for Converging Nano- and Biotechnologies
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Belgium
Michael Bravo Senior Lecturer and Fellow of
Downing College
Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
UK
Margaret Buckingham Director of Research
Department of Developmental Biology
Institut Pasteur
France
Tony Cass Deputy Director and Research Director
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Imperial College London
UK
Simon Colton Senior Lecturer
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
UK
Richard B. Dasher Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center
Stanford University
USA
Elizabeth Dowdeswell Former Executive Director,
United Nations Environment Programme
Former Assistant Deputy Minister,
Environment Canada
Canada
Mary Ganguli Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
USA
John Gore Chancellor's University Professor
Vanderbilt University
USA
Marcos Intaglietta Director, Microhemodynamics Laboratory
University of California, San Diego
USA
Eddy Issacs Executive Director
Alberta Energy Research Institute
Canada
Raj Kalaria Director
Cerebrovascular Laboratory
Newcastle General Hospital
UK
Wilf Keller President and CEO
Genome Prairie
Canada
Marc Lalande Associate Dean
Research Planning and Coordination
School of Medicine,
University of Connecticut
USA
Michael Lysaght Director
Center for Biomedical Engineering
Brown University
USA
Joe J. Mambretti Director, International Center for Advanced Internet Research
Northwestern University
USA
Perry L. McCarty Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus
Stanford University
USA
Gordon E. Miller Director General
Canadian Forest Services, Northern Forestry Centre
Natural Resources Canada
Canada
Hugh C. Morris Chairman of the Board, Eldorado Gold Corporation
Director, Triex Minerals Corporation
Canada
Gordon R. Peeling President and CEO
Mining Association of Canada
Canada
Ken Pereira Former Executive Vice-President,
Regulatory Operations Branch
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Canada
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe James S. McDonnell
Distinguished University Professor and
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University
USA
Harald Rosenthal President
World Sturgeon Conservation Society
Germany
Hock Soon Seah Professor and Director of gameLAB
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Len Syme Distinguished Emeritus Professor
University of California, Berkeley
USA
Ronald Venter Professor Emeritus and
Chalmers Engineering Design Chair
University of Toronto
Canada
Alan E. Winter President and CEO
Genome British Columbia
Canada
Brendan Wren Head, Pathogen Molecular Biology Unit
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
University of London
UK
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Phase 2 Review Panel

Names Titles
Elizabeth Dowdeswell
(Chair)
Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Council of Canadian Academies,
Founding President and CEO, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization
Canada
Michel Béland Advisor to the Director General,
Atmospheric Science and Technology Environment Canada, and
President, Commission of Atmospheric Sciences,
World Meteorological Organization
Gustaaf Borghs IMEC Senior Research Fellow in microelectronics,
Professor, Physics and astronomy department,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Belgium
Robert K. Cowen Robert E. Maytag Chair in Ichthyology,
Professor, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science,
University of Miami
USA
Richard B. Dasher Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center,
Executive director, Center for Integrated Systems,
Stanford University
USA
Denise Galloway Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine,
Cancer biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
USA
John Irvine Professor of chemistry, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council senior fellow,
University of St Andrews
Scotland
Lennart Josefson Professor of solid mechanics
Chalmers University of Technology
Director, Swedish Hybrid Vehicle Centre
Sweden
Raj Kalaria Deputy Director, Medical Research Council Centre for Brain Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle General Hospital,
Professor of Neuropathology,
Newcastle University
UK
Marc Lalande Physicians Health Services Chair in Genetics and Developmental Biology,
Chair of the department of Genetics and Developmental Biology,
Senior Associate Dean for Research Planning and Coordination at the School of Medicine,
Director of the University of Connecticut Stem Cell Institute,
University of Connecticut
USA
Joe J. Mambretti Director, International Center for Advanced Internet Research,
Northwestern University
USA
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor,
University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Princeton University
USA
Irene Tracey Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetic Science,
Director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain,
Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics & Clinical Neurology,
University of Oxford
UK