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:
Dr. Judah A. Denburg, MD, FRCP(C), Scientific Director, AllerGen NCE Inc.
Programme A – Gene-Environment Interactions, Leaders:
Dr. Andrew Sandford, PhD,
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Dr. Stuart Turvey, MBBS, DPhil, FRCPC,
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
Dr. Jeff Brook, PhD,
Senior Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada
Programme B – Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Leaders:
Dr. Dean Befus, PhD,
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta
Dr. Paul O'Byrne,
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, McMaster University
Programme C – Public Health, Ethics, Policy and Society, Leaders:
Dr. Ann Clarke, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University
Dr. Susan Elliott, PhD,
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
The CHILD Study Leader
Dr. Malcolm Sears, MB, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University
Knowledge and Technology Exchange and Exploitation
Dr. David B. Shindler, PhD, CEO, Pro-Bio Associates
Dr. Terry Delovitch, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario
Mr. Tim Caulfield, LLM, FRSC, Research Chair in Health Law & Policy, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta
Mark Raizenne, ScD, Director General, Centre for Food-borne. Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Dr. Randall Yatscoff, Executive Vice-President, TEC Edmonton
Ex Officio (non-voting):
Dr. Diana Royce, Managing Director and COO, AllerGen NCE Inc.
Ms. Tia Moffat, Senior Program Manager, NCE Program
Ms. Lianne Soller, Vice President, ASNPN, McGill University
Mandate of the Research Management Committee
The Research Management Committee of the Board of Directors is expected to:
- Review new research proposals;
- Recommend Board approval for research projects and Highly Qualified Personnel program funding;
- Guide and manage network research, implement strategic research goals, criteria and processes (i.e. RFPs) for research investments for subsequent approval of the Board;
- Monitor and review the progress of Network Research, and recommend to the Board the renewal/termination of projects and/or investigators;
- Monitor the performance of, and provide feedback to, individual Network Investigators;
- 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;
- Assisting the Network in identifying Network Research that contains commercializable Intellectual Property created or invented during a Network Research project;
- Follow policies, procedures and project selection criteria established by the Board of Directors;
- Establish qualifications of Network investigators and maintain the appropriate mix of academic expertise within the Network;
- Ensure that ethical, legal and social research guidelines are followed;
- Liaise with Network Investigators (communications and related planning, fostering of collaboration across themes/teams, planning of annual meeting/conference, workshops and symposia);
- Ensure the quality and focus of Network research with input from a formative peer review process conducted by the International Scientific Excellence Advisory Committee;
- 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.