The Research Management Committee (RMC) manages AllerGen’s research and Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) investments. This committee comprises research leaders, technology transfer experts, policy makers, and the Vice-President of the AllerGen Students and New Professionals Network (ASNPN).
Current RMC members
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Professor and Head, Section of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, University of Manitoba
Dr. Becker’s primary research interest is the interrelationship of allergy, asthma and the environment. He is the Manitoba Site Leader for The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study and former co-leader of AllerGen’s Patients, Policy and Public Health Enabling Platform.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Dean Befus | Research Co-leader: B&B” opened=”closed”]
Dean Befus, PhDProfessor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta; Astra-Zeneca Canada Inc., Chair in Asthma Research
Dr. Befus focuses on finding new therapeutic treatments for asthma patients when their airways become inflamed by an asthma trigger, such as moulds, pollen and dust. He is director of the Alberta Asthma Centre and co-leader of AllerGen’s Biomarkers and Bioinformatics Enabling Platform.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Jeff Brook | Research Co-leader: GxE” opened=”closed”]
Senior Scientist, Air Quality Research Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Assistant Professor, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Dr. Brook conducts original research in air pollutant deposition and urban/regional air quality. He is a Research Leader for AllerGen’s Gene-Environment Interactions Enabling Platform.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Tim Caulfield | Law, Ethics, Policy & KMb” opened=”closed”]
Tim Caulfield, LLm, FRSC, FCAHS
Canada Research Chair in Health Law & Policy; Trudeau Fellow and Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health; Research Director, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta
Prof. Caulfield has been the Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta since 1993. He is a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation and PI for a number of interdisciplinary projects exploring ethical, legal and health policy issues.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Ann Clarke | Co-leader: NFASt/CanFAST” opened=”closed”]
Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary; The Arthritis Society Chair in Rheumatic Diseases
Dr. Clarke is an established investigator in the epidemiology and outcomes of autoimmune and atopic diseases. She is co-leader of AllerGen’s NFASt/CanFAST Legacy Project.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Judah Denburg | Scientific Director” opened=”closed”]
Scientific Director and CEO, AllerGen NCE Inc.
As Scientific Director of AllerGen, Dr. Denburg helps steer an innovative and inter-disciplinary research program. Dr. Denburg’s main research thrusts include examination of the mechanisms of allergic inflammation, with particular emphasis on hemopoietic cytokines and their role in activating the differentiation and recruitment of inflammatory cells such as eosinophils, basophils and mast cells.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Susan Elliott | Co-leader: NFASt/CanFAST” opened=”closed”]
Professor, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Dr. Elliott is a medical geographer involved in interdisciplinary research investigating the relationship between the environment and health at different spatial scales vis-à-vis risk perception, prevalence rates and community knowledge and practice. She is co-leader of AllerGen’s NFASt/CanFAST Legacy Project.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Gail Gauvreau | Research Co-leader: CIC Legacy Initiative” opened=”closed”]
Professor, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University
Dr. Gauvreau’s research interests include the mechanisms of allergic inflammation, novel therapeutic targets for asthma and COPD, airway inflammation in asthma and COPD, and cysteinyl leukotrienes and cysLT receptors.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”John Gordon | Research Co-leader: B&B” opened=”closed”]
Professor, Division of Respirology, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Gordon is an active immunotherapeutics researcher with special interests in allergy/asthma, regulation of immune responses, and therapeutic amelioration of neutrophilic inflammation, in both humans and veterinary species. He is co-leader of AllerGen’s Biomarkers and Bioinformatics Enabling Platform.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Michael Kobor | Research Co-leader: B&B” opened=”closed”]
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics, Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia
Dr. Kobor’s laboratory builds upon deep expertise in gene regulation and epigenetics to illuminate the developmental origins of health and disease. He is a Research Leader for AllerGen’s Gene-Environment Interactions Enabling Platform.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Jean Marshall | Co-leader: NFASt/CanFAST” opened=”closed”]
Jean Marshall, PhDProfessor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University
Dr. Marshall has a long term interest in the biology and function of mast cells in host defense and disease. She is co-leader of AllerGen’s NFASt/CanFAST Legacy Project.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Kelly McNagny | Associate Scientific Director & Research Co-leader: B&B” opened=”closed”]
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia; Co-Director, The Biomedical Research Centre
Dr. McNagny runs a laboratory at the Biomedical Research Centre, The University of British Columbia, which studies the CD34 family of stem cell proteins. He is co-leader of AllerGen’s Biomarkers and Bioinformatics Enabling Platform and AllerGen’s Associate Scientific Director.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Mark Raizenne | Public policy, KMb” opened=”closed”]
Mark Raizenne, ScD
Associate Director, Public Health, McLaughlin Centre for Population Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa
Mark Raizenne has over 25 years experience in public service dealing with environmental and public health-related issues.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”David B. Shindler | IP Management & Commercialization” opened=”closed”]
President and CEO, Pro-Bio Associates
Dr. David Shindler is head of Pro-Bio Associates, consultants in innovation and technology development in the medical, environmental and agri-food areas.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Padmaja Subarrao | Director, CHILD Study Legacy Initiative” opened=”closed”]
Padmaja Subbarao, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Staff Respirologist, The Hospital for Sick Children; Scientist, Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Paediatrics, University of Toronto
Dr. Subbarao’s primary research interest is in the early determinants and development of asthma, with a focus on infant lung function biomarkers of inflammation. Within AllerGen, she is Director and Toronto Site Leader of the CHILD Study.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Stuart Turvey | Co-Director: CHILD Study Legacy Initiative” opened=”closed”]
Stuart Turvey, MBBS, DPhil, FRCP(C)
Director of Clinical Research, Child & Family Research Institute; Professor, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, The University of British Columbia
Dr. Turvey’s research program is translational, interdisciplinary and unique in its focus on understanding the role of innate immunity in infectious and inflammatory diseases of childhood. He is the Co-Director and Vancouver Site Leader for AllerGen’s Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Loubna Akhabir (observer) | Vice-President, ASNPN” opened=”closed”]
Loubna Akhabir, PhD (observer)
Vice-President ASNPN, McMaster University
Dr. Akhabir completed her PhD in….[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle][otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Pascal Marchand (observer) | Program Manager, NCE Secretariat” opened=”closed”]
Pascal Marchand
(observer)
Program Manager, NCE Secretariat
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Diana Royce, EdD (observer)
Managing Director and COO, AllerGen NCE Inc.
Dr. Royce has over 30 years of experience in the post-secondary and health sectors related to public consultation and research, program implementation, strategic and operational planning, network administration, partnership and public policy development, advocacy, fundraising, knowledge mobilization, conference planning and meeting facilitation.[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle]