Steven Paul Miller, SickKids & University of Toronto, Neonatal Neurology. Dr. Miller is a physician-scientist leader whose brain-imaging studies of critically-ill newborns identified the power of early-life intensive care unit experience to shape the trajectory of brain development through childhood. His findings led a paradigm shift from brain injury as a fixed-event to a focus on “everyday” interventions that he showed are modifiable to promote brain maturation across the life-course.

Steven Paul Miller, SickKids et University of Toronto, neurologie néonatale. Le Dr Miller est un médecin et un scientifique de premier plan dont les études sur l’imagerie cérébrale des nouveau-nés gravement malades ont mis en évidence l’influence de l’expérience vécue dans une unité de soins intensifs au début de la vie sur la trajectoire du développement cérébral pendant toute l’enfance. Ses constats ont conduit à un changement de paradigme, les lésions cérébrales n’étant plus considérées comme un événement fixe, mais comme des interventions « quotidiennes », dont il a montré qu’elles pouvaient être modifiées pour favoriser la maturation du cerveau tout au long de la vie.

Matthew Miller is an internationally-renowned expert in viral pandemics and vaccinology at McMaster University. He has made significant contributions to pandemic preparedness and the development of broadly-protecting vaccines and therapeutics against pathogens like influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2. His unique approaches to therapeutic development, including inhaled delivery of vaccines and therapeutics to treat and prevent respiratory infections, has been paradigmshifting.

Matthew Miller est un expert de renommée internationale en matière de pandémies virales et de vaccinologie à la McMaster University. Il a contribué de manière significative à la préparation aux pandémies et à la mise au point de vaccins et de traitements à large protection contre des agents pathogènes tels que le virus de la grippe et le SRAS-CoV-2. Ses approches uniques en matière de développement thérapeutique, notamment l’administration de vaccins et de produits thérapeutiques par inhalation pour traiter et prévenir les infections respiratoires, ont changé la donne.

LONG CITATION Professor Freda Miller is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a world leader in the fields of neural cell death and stem cells. Her discoveries include identification of pivotal cell death proteins in developing neurons, association of these proteins with death in the injured adult nervous system, and discovery of a multipotent stem cell from adult skin as an accessible source of human cells to repair the damaged nervous system. The author of 96 publications, Professor Miller is President of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience, and is the first Canadian scientist to be elected Councillor of the American Society for Neuroscience. SHORT CITATION Professor Freda Miller is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a world leader in the fields of neural cell death and stem cells. She has identified proteins that are involved in the death of developing and injured neurons. Dr. Miller has also identified a source of stem cells in adult skin that may be used to repair the damaged nervous system.

An outstanding scholar and lecturer, Michael Millgate has established an unchallenged international reputation as biographer, editor, and critical expositor. He has won high praise for his works on William Faulkner and Thomas Hardy, including his biography of Hardy and his co-editing of the seven-volume edition of Hardy's "Collected Letters", and for his studies of the posterity-conciousness of authors, "Testamentors Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy". His stature has been signalled by the award of such distinguished Fellowships as the Guggenheim, Killam, and Connaught. His seemingly inexhaustible energy and extensive administrative experience and talent are called upon frequently by national and international committees, councils, and presses.

PIERRE MILMAN, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of geometry and analysis in the vicinity of singularities of analytic sets. He has introduced a new method of constructing local invariants of singularity, obtaining an algorithm for canonical desingularization by successively blowing up their maximal loci. His research on ideals of analytic and differentiable functions has isolated the class of subanalytic sets amenable to classical analysis. Milman's work reveals surprising relationships among geometric, algebraic and analytic properties of singular spaces, helping to make algebraic geometry a part of the working tools of an analyst.

Cynthia E. Milton is internationally recognized for her work on memory, truth commissions, and historical and artistic representations in the aftermath of conflict, in particular in contemporary Latin America. She is the author and editor of several publications, including an award-winning monograph on poverty and colonialism. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Latin American History and received an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

Cynthia E. Milton est mondialement renommée pour ses travaux sur la mémoire, les commissions de vérité et les représentations historiques et artistiques faisant suite aux conflits, en particulier dans l’Amérique latine contemporaine. Elle est l’auteure et l’éditrice de plusieurs publications, dont une monographie primée sur la pauvreté et le colonialisme. Elle est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada en histoire de l’Amérique latine et a été récipiendaire de la bourse Alexander von Humboldt.

Véronique Miron is the John David Eaton Chair in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research at Unity Health Toronto and Full Professor at the University of Toronto. She conducts world-leading research on how the insulation surrounding nerve fibres in the central nervous system, called myelin, is supported in health and degenerated or malformed in common neurological conditions like MS or cerebral palsy. Her findings delineate new pathways to treat neurological conditions.

Véronique Miron est titulaire de la chaire John David Eaton de recherche sur la sclérose en plaques (SEP) au sein de la Unity Health Toronto et professeur titulaire à la University of Toronto. Elle mène des recherches de pointe à l’échelle mondiale sur la façon dont l’isolation entourant les fibres nerveuses dans le système nerveux central, appelée myéline, est maintenue en bonne santé et dégénérée ou malformée dans les affections neurologiques courantes telles que la SEP ou l’infirmité motrice cérébrale. Ses découvertes ouvrent de nouvelles voies pour le traitement des maladies neurologiques.

Sharmistha Mishra is an epidemiologist and a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Modeling and Program Science. Her research on disentangling sources of heterogeneity in the risks and spread of infectious diseases is grounded in the real-world implementation of public health programs. Her team examines transmission pathways structured by systemic inequities, and tests interventions tailored to disproportionate risks to inform public health and policy decisions in Canada and internationally.

Sharmistha Mishra est épidémiologiste et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 2 en modélisation mathématique et en science des programmes. Ses recherches visant à démêler les sources d’hétérogénéité dans les risques et la propagation des maladies infectieuses s’appuient sur la mise en œuvre dans le monde réel de programmes de santé publique. Son équipe examine les voies de transmission structurées par les inégalités systémiques et met à l’épreuve des interventions adaptées à des risques disproportionnés afin d’éclairer les décisions en matière de santé publique et de politiques au Canada et à l’étranger.

Professor Roger Howard Mitchell is the world's leading expert on the occurrence and genesis of alkaline rocks. His extensive work on the mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry of kimberlites has confirmed the standard genetic model, culminating in the definitive book on this important group of rocks. He has also worked extensively on the character and origin of lamproites, resulting in a new model for their genesis and publication of the definitive book on these rocks. His work is marked by that rare combination of thoroughness and imagination, and has established him as the leading petrologist in Canada.

LONG CITATION Bruce Mitchell is a distinguished scholar, teacher, mentor, and leader. His groundbreaking and innovative research in the areas of water and environmental management has been widely recognized, as is reflected in the numerous national and international awards and distinctions he has received, the editorships he has held, and the extent to which his advice is sought by governments and international organizations. His remarkable record of publication includes 31 authored and edited books and monographs and over 128 articles and chapters. His textbooks have been standards in the field for 25 years, with one translated into three languages. The excellence of Bruce Mitchell's teaching has been formally acknowledged through an award from the University of Waterloo. However, it is perhaps most powerfully demonstrated by the inspiration and guidance that he has provided to subsequent generations, who are carrying on the tradition of practical geographical scholarship in the resource and environmental management field that he has defined during his career. SHORT CITATION Bruce Mitchell is a distinguished scholar, teacher, mentor, and leader. His groundbreaking and innovative research in water and environmental management has been widely recognized. His remarkable record of publication includes 31 authored and edited books and monographs and over 128 articles and chapters. His textbooks have been standards for 25 years, and he has inspired and guided a new generation of scholars in the environmental development field.

MITROVICA, Jerry X. – Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University For seminal contributions to the theory of planetary deformation and patterns of sea-level change that occur in response to surface loading and mantle convection, with applications to the mantle viscosity structure, orbital history, rotational stability, ice-age terminations and global warming.

MITROVICA, Jerry X. – Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Pour les contributions séminales à la théorie de la déformation planétaire et des modèles de changement de niveau de la mer qui se produisent en réponse à une charge de surface et la convection du manteau, avec des applications à la structure de la viscosité du manteau, l’histoire orbitale, la stabilité de rotation, les terminaisons de la période glaciaire et le réchauffement climatique planétaire.