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Planned outage for data centre move
April 25, 2024

Program Update  Annual reporting deadline for 2022-23 is September 30, 2023
May 16, 2023

Program Update  Annual reporting deadline for 2021-22 is September 30, 2022
May 12, 2022

Program Update  Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on research: NEW guidelines for the research community
January 7, 2022

Launch of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs competition!
November 22, 2021

Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program competition coming soon!
July 5, 2021

Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate wins Nobel Prize
October 7, 2020

Introducing the Safeguarding your Research Portal
September 14, 2020

Results for Phase 1 of Competition 3 now available
December 8, 2017

Frederick Roth part of team awarded $75 million to find cures for heart disease
January 26, 2017

Reading minds with neuroimaging gives coma patients a voice
January 26, 2017

A closer look at the chemistry behind global warming and ocean acidification
January 20, 2017

CERC team gets new Canada Research Chair to strengthen research in Arctic environmental chemistry
January 2, 2017

Ali Emadi named fellow of National Academy of Inventors
December 20, 2016

Canada is looking for a Chief Science Advisor
December 5, 2016

International research team studies impacts of climate change in Greenland fjords
November 30, 2016

Canada Excellence Research Chairs play significant role in Canada First Research Excellence Fund initiatives
October 19, 2016

D. Graham Pearson elected to The Royal Society of Canada
October 4, 2016

Ian Gardner honoured with the Davis 2016 Alumni Achievement Award
October 3, 2016

Howard Wheater speaks at International Court of Justice’s 70th anniversary
September 20, 2016

Canada Excellence Research Chairs-funded research aims to improve ecological health of the Saskatchewan River Delta
September 12, 2016

Living without light
June 6, 2016

Developing the next generation of aquatic health scientists
June 3, 2016

Canada Research Chair leads team that finds the genetic cause of multiple sclerosis
June 1, 2016

Thomas Thundat’s sensors can detect anything… including the Zika virus
May 16, 2016

Thomas Thundat to host 2016 Summer Institute on Nanotechnologies
April 28, 2016

Robert Boyd wins 2016 Charles Hard Townes Award
March 22, 2016

Alternative proteins encoded by the same gene have widely divergent functions
March 4, 2016

Philippe Van Cappellen’s team celebrates World Wetlands Day at University of Waterloo
February 15, 2016

How a film broke through a coma
November 24, 2015

How Canada reversed the ‘brain drain’
November 23, 2015

The Chairs Secretariat is changing its name
September 24, 2015

We are Canada Excellence Research Chairs (video)
September 23, 2015

David Cory and Philippe Van Cappellen named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
September 22, 2015

Babin’s team explores new Arctic depths with Argo drone
August 14, 2015

Removing the unknowns from "unknown cause epilepsy"
July 17, 2015

Removing the unknowns from "unknown cause epilepsy"
July 17, 2015

Teaching old dog reservoirs new mesoscience tricks
July 10, 2015

HCV vaccine looks promising
May 28, 2015

Shirley Tilghman named Officer of the Order of Canada
May 8, 2015

World Water Day puts our most vital resource at the top of the agenda
March 20, 2015

"Regards croisés sur la recherche": Bertrand Reulet talks about his quantum signal processing research at the Université de Sherbrooke (French only)
February 2, 2015

Messaddeq’s team develops ‘smart’ clothes that monitor and transmit wearers’ biomedical information
January 2, 2015

Pearson’s ringwoodite discovery named in Discover magazine’s top 25 scientific discoveries of the year
December 23, 2014

Philippe Van Cappellen wins 2015 Science Innovation Award
December 22, 2014

Using mine detectors to fight climate change
November 27, 2014

Saskatoon’s The StarPhoenix interviews water security researcher Howard Wheater
November 24, 2014

Roth collaborates on major new interactome map
November 20, 2014

Wheater to speak at the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference
August 15, 2014

Start-up helps study genetic factors affecting chronic pain
August 15, 2014

Government of Canada Invests in World's Most Promising Young Researchers
August 14, 2014

Discovery of Hepatitis C virus by University of Alberta researcher is “Nobel-worthy”
August 7, 2014

The elegance and ease of a world without cords
July 18, 2014

Canada Excellence Research Chairs Oliver Ernst and Adrian Owen move on to final stage of CIFAR’s Global Call for Ideas
July 8, 2014

Canada Excellence Research Chair Robert Boyd receives honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow
June 25, 2014

CERC, Canada Research Chairs among star speakers at Canadian Science Writers’ Association annual conference
June 5, 2014

CERC Younès Messaddeq delivers keynote at North Africa Smart Cities summit
June 5, 2014

University of Ottawa hosts Ultrafast Lasers and Applications summer school
May 29, 2014

How baker’s yeast Is helping scientists understand drug interactions
May 26, 2014

Reulet to tour Europe with quantum light bulb
May 21, 2014

Douglas Wallace leads Canadian push to join research consortium
May 21, 2014

Philippe Van Cappellen leads study on plastics in the Great Lakes
May 12, 2014

Graham Pearson presentation draws big crowd at British High Commission
April 25, 2014

Program for the fourth annual Canada Excellence Research Chairs Meeting at Université Laval
March 28, 2014

Oliver Ernst and Adrian Owen selected for Global Call for Ideas
March 27, 2014

Robert Boyd elected SPIE Fellow
March 20, 2014

CERC‑led discovery points to vast ‘oceans’ beneath the Earth
March 13, 2014

Université de Sherbrooke hosts the Physics Games
March 6, 2014

The University of British Columbia opens new Centre for Brain Health
March 5, 2014

CERC Douglas Wallace wins the Hutchison Medal
March 3, 2014

CERC group leads discussion on wetland protection
February 5, 2014

David Cory to speak at 2014 AAAS on cutting-edge innovations in quantum technologies
February 4, 2014

CERC peeks into Schrödinger's box
January 23, 2014

David Cory holds grand opening of laboratory at the Institute for Quantum Computing
December 13, 2013

Ali Emadi receives federal funding for university-industry partnership through Automotive Partnership Canada
October 25, 2013

Researchers share developments at the University of Alberta
June 18, 2013

Ali Emadi shows off Canada's first electric Ford Focus and talks auto research at McMaster (YouTube)
April 2, 2013

Driving Toward the Future (McMaster Times – Spring 2013)
April 2, 2013

University of Manitoba to unveil Arctic research facility
March 7, 2013

Hepatitis C: effective control on the horizon (University of Alberta)
February 11, 2013

Explosive breakthrough in research on molecular recognition published in Nature
January 30, 2013

You Tube Research Profile on Ali Emadi, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Hybrid Powertrain at McMaster University
January 29, 2013

2012-11-14
Brain-damaged man 'aware' of scientists' questions

2012-11-08
Phase 1 Competition Results

2012-06-27
Canada Excellence Research Chair identifies Parkinson’s disease gene, with Mennonite family’s help

2012-03-15
World’s leading researchers give presentations at Canada Excellence Research Chairs Summit

2012-02-17
Canada Excellence Research Chair Michael Houghton on track to develop hepatitis C vaccine

2012-01-03
At the cusp of a new industrial revolution

2011-10-07
Dreaming of new frontiers at Université Laval

2011-09-13
Canada Excellence Research Chair meets with Dalai Lama

2011-09-06
CERC Matthew Farrer named B.C. Leadership Chair in Genetic Medicine

2011-08-31
Protecting Canada’s fish stocks

2011-08-26
CERC research team identifies new gene mutation linked to Parkinson’s

2011-07-14
Humour lends insight into vegetative state

2011-05-11
Dalhousie builds Oceans Excellence Centre

2011-02-15
Canada Excellence Research Chairs Program celebrated in Ottawa