A total of 54 applications were reviewed by external experts, review panels of Canadian and international experts, and finally a selection board of distinguished Canadian and international leaders. Each application was assigned to one of the following review panels:
- environment, climate change, and clean and sustainable technologies;
- health and life sciences;
- information and communications technologies; and
- social inclusion and innovative society.
The CERC steering committee approved the final selection of 11 applications.
Institutions invited to submit nominations for Phase 2
The following institutions are invited to nominate world-leading researchers to fill the 11 proposed chairs listed:
Concordia University
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities
McGill University
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Genomic Medicine: Genes to drug targets for next-generation therapies
Ryerson University
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration
University of Alberta
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics
The University of British Columbia
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Forest Bioproducts
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Precision Cancer Drug Design
University of Manitoba
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Arctic Sea Ice, Freshwater-Marine Coupling and Climate Change
Université de Montréal
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Machine Learning for Artificial Intelligence
University of Toronto
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cardiac Regeneration
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Gravity of Fundamental Astrophysics Research
University of Waterloo
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Human-Centred Robotics and Machine Intelligence