Dr. Connie Eaves

Professor Connie Eaves of the University of British Columbia and the B.C. Cancer Agency is a distinguished biological scientist. She has contributed major insights into how blood cells are formed and how cell growth is regulated. She has applied her fundamental work to the problem of human leukemia, a malignant disease of blood formation. Her discovery that normal cells will outgrow leukemic cells in long-term culture is the basis of a new approach to marrow transplantation. She is a scientific leader; she heads a major research group at UBC. She has had an important influence on Canadian science policy, through her work with the National Cancer Institute of Canada. She is an effective educator, supervising many doctoral students. Her work and her personal contributions have justly earned world-wide respect and recognition.