2023 Gairdner Early Career Investigator Competition
We invite early career investigators across Canada to submit an application to present their research as part of the Gairdner Science Week events in October.
Up to five investigators will be chosen to give 10 minute talks in association with the Laureate Programs in Toronto on October 25 & 26, 2023, to participate in a follow-up networking session with 2023 laureates and to attend the 2023 Awards Gala on October 26, 2023 (travel and hotel provided). The talks will be broadcast live and recorded for YouTube distribution globally.
This is a competitive process, with the finalists being selected by the laureates themselves.
Applicants must indicate one of the following laureate options as their intended match:
Quorum sensing, bacterial biology | |
Protein structure prediction, artificial intelligence in research | |
Perinatal health, evidence-based interventions, community inclusion in research | |
Culturally- and contextually-led research and interventions, mental health and substance abuse | |
Brain tumour biology, treatment and early detection |
Submissions should include a 2 minute video proposal for your research presentation, plus a 100 word summary explaining how your science relates to one or more of this year’s laureates and what you hope to learn from your interactions with them. If you wish to use slides in your video we request no more than two (2) be included.
This call is open to all faculty and professionals at the Assistant Professor or equivalent rank.
Interested in attending an info session regarding this competition? Sign up HERE
Only one submission allowed per individual.
Submission Due Date
August 15, 2023 11:59 PM PDT
APPLY HERE
The Gairdner Foundation confirms its strong commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Throughout the activities associated with the Canada Gairdner Awards program and associated Canadian and Global outreach programs, Gairdner strives to engage and promote the active participation of individuals of diverse backgrounds and abilities and embraces diverse perspectives in research.
If you have any questions or have any accommodation requirements, please contact Sarah Devonshire at sarah@gairdner.org
Discover last year's award winning research by the 2022 Early Career Investigator Awardees
Related Winners
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Bonnie L. Bassler
PhD Bonnie Bassler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Squibb Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Bonnie received a BS in Biochemistry from the University of California at Davis and a PhD in Biochemistry from the Johns Hopkins University. She performed postdoctoral work with Michael Silverman in Genetics at the Agouron Institute. Her research focuses on molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intercellular communication; a process called quorum sensing. -
José Belizán
José Belizán is an obstetrician, doctor in Biology of Reproduction from Salvador University (Buenos Aires) and doctor in Medicine from Rosario University. He currently works as principal investigator in the Department of Research in Maternal and Child Health, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness in Argentina. He is an associate professor at Tulane University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) and Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET). -
E Peter Greenberg
PhDDr. Everett Peter Greenberg received his PhD in Microbiology in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts. After finishing his postdoctoral at Harvard University (1977-1978), he joined the faculty at Cornell University Microbiology (1978-1984). He later moved to the University of Iowa as Professor of Microbiology (1988-2000) and Shepperd Professor of Microbiology (2000-2005), finally joining the University of Washington in 2005 where he currently is the Nester Professor of Microbiology. Dr. Greenberg has studied quorum sensing since the late 1970s and is widely considered the father of the field of microbial quorum sensing. The term “quorum sensing” originates in a 1994 Journal of Bacteriology article on which he was senior author.
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Demis Hassabis
PhD CBE FRS FREngDemis Hassabis is the Founder and CEO of DeepMind, the world’s leading AI research company, and now a part of Alphabet. Founded in 2010, DeepMind has been at the forefront of the field ever since, producing landmark research breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the complex game of Go, and AlphaFold, which was heralded as a solution to the 50-year grand challenge of protein folding.
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John Jumper
PhD, MPhil John Jumper received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, where he developed machine learning methods to simulate protein dynamics. Prior to that, he worked at D.E. Shaw Research on molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics and supercooled liquids. He also holds an MPhil in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University. At DeepMind, John is leading the development of new methods to apply machine learning to protein biology. -
Christopher Mushquash
Ph.D., C.PsychChristopher Mushquash, Ph.D., C.Psych., is Anishinawbe (Ojibway), and a member of Pawgwasheeng (Pays Plat First Nation). He is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Lakehead University, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Clinical Psychologist at Dilico Anishinabek Family Care, Vice President Research at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, and Chief Scientist at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute. -
Michael R. Silverman
PhDMike was born October 7, 1943 in Fort Collins Colorado. He was the son of a rural veterinarian who practiced in western Nebraska, USA. In high school, Mike studied vocational agriculture and later worked on an experimental farm where he developed an interest in plant diseases and bacteriology. He received BS (1966) and MS (1968) degrees in Bacteriology from the University of Nebraska. In 1972, Mike completed a PhD from the University of California, San Diego studying the molecular genetics of motility and chemotaxis in Escherichia coli. -
Gelareh Zadeh
MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FAANSDr. Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FAANS, is the Dan Family Chair and Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto. This role makes her the first Canadian Chair of Neurosurgery. She is Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital and Medical Director for the Krembil Brain Institute at University Health Network. Dr. Zadeh is a Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre where she runs a translational research program at MacFeeters-Hamilton Neuro-oncology Program and holds the Wilkins Family Brain Tumor Research Chair.
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