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Research Management Committee

Research Management Committee


The Research Management Committee (RMC) is a standing advisory committee to the Board of Directors that manages the Network’s research and HQP investments.


 Chair:  Judah A. Denburg, MD, Scientific Director and CEO, AllerGen NCE Inc.

Programme A:  Gene-Environment Interactions Leaders:

Jeff Brook, PhD
Assistant Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada

Andrew Sandford, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Stuart Turvey, MBBS, DPhil
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious & Immunologist Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia 

Programme B:  Diagnostics and Therapeutics Leaders:

Dean Befus, PhD
Professor and AstraZeneca Canada Inc., Chair in Asthma Research, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta

Paul O’Byrne, MB
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, McMaster University

Programme C:  Public Health, Ethics, Policy and Society Leaders:

Ann Clarke, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University

Susan Elliott, PhD
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study Leader:

Malcolm Sears, MB
Professor, Department of Medicine, McMaster University

Knowledge and Technology Exchange and Exploitation (KTEE) Leaders:

Tim Caulfield, LLM
Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Research Director, Health Law and Science Policy Group, University of Alberta

Terry Delovitch, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Mark Raizenne, ScD
Director General, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada

David B. Shindler, PhD
President and CEO, Pro-Bio Associates

Randy Yatscoff, PhD
Executive Vice-President, TEC Edmonton

ex-officio

Lisa Drouillard
Deputy Director, NCE Secretariat/NSERC

Pia Reece, MSc, PhD Candidate
McMaster University; Vice-President, AllerGen Student and New Professionals Network (ASNPN)

Diana Royce, EdD
Managing Director and COO, AllerGen NCE Inc.

 

 

Mandate of the Research Management Committee
 

The Research Management Committee of the Board of Directors is expected to:

  1. Review new research proposals;
     
  2. Recommend Board approval for research projects and Highly Qualified Personnel program funding;
     
  3. Guide and manage network research, implement strategic research goals, criteria and processes (i.e. RFPs) for research investments for subsequent approval of the Board;
     
  4. Monitor and review the progress of Network Research, and recommend to the Board the renewal/termination of projects and/or investigators;
     
  5. Monitor the performance of, and provide feedback to, individual Network Investigators;
     
  6. Make recommendations to the Board of Directors through the Scientific Director for Network Research funding including adding projects, terminating projects, adding new Network Investigators, allocating and adjusting funds and budgets;
     
  7. Assisting the Network in identifying Network Research that contains commercializable Intellectual Property created or invented during a Network Research project;
     
  8. Follow policies, procedures and project selection criteria established by the Board of Directors;
     
  9. Establish qualifications of Network investigators and maintain the appropriate mix of academic expertise within the Network;
     
  10. Ensure that ethical, legal and social research guidelines are followed;
     
  11. Liaise with Network Investigators (communications and related planning, fostering of collaboration across themes/teams, planning of annual meeting/conference, workshops and symposia);
     
  12. Ensure the quality and focus of Network research with input from a formative peer review process conducted by the International Scientific Excellence Advisory Committee;
     
  13. Ensure the identification and exploitation of all opportunities for leveraging Network funding for partnership, commercialization, technology transfer, knowledge transfer, and the development of Highly Qualified Personnel.