John Scheffer has attained worldwide recognition for his pioneering research in the field of solid-state organic chemistry. Scheffer is the author of over 200 research publications and the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, most recently the 2000 Alfred Bader Lecture Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry.

Long Citation Stephen Scherer is one of Canada's leading geneticists making seminal contributions to the understanding of the human genome. He is internationally known for contributions to decoding the sequence of human chromosome 7, including the identification of 20 disease causing genes. His group also discovered the phenomena of large structural alterations as a common type of variation in the human genome contributing to both disease and evolution of chromosomes. He has published over 650 publications, won numerous awards including the Steacie Prize, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship, the Premier’s Summit Award for Medical Research, the Killam Prize, and multiple Honorary degrees. Dr. Scherer is currently the Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada. Short Citation Stephen Scherer is an internationally known geneticists making seminal contributions to the understanding of the human genome. His group discovered the phenomena of large structural alterations as a common type of variation in the human genome contributing to both disease and evolution of chromosomes. Dr. Scherer has won numerous awards including the Steacie Prize, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship, the Premier’s Summit Award for Medical Research, the Killam Prize, and multiple Honorary degrees. Dr. Scherer is currently the Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Schiller is a world leader in peptide chemistry. He has developed new concepts in receptor-selective opioid analogs on the basis of the so-called membrane compartment concept. One of them, carrying a high positive charge, displayed unprecedented µ-selectivity is by far the most selective µ-agonist known to date and appears to have considerable potential for clinical applications. In 1987, he received the Max-Bergmann Medal which is one of the highest recognition in peptide research. He received the Galen Award (Prix Galien) for excellence in pharmaceutical research (1995), an NIH Merit Award (1997) and the Vincent du Vigneaud Award of the American Peptide Society (1998). He was elected a Fellow of The American Association of Pharmaceutical Sicentists in 1998. In 1999, he was appointed "officier" of the Ordre national du Québec".

Dr. Aaron Schimmer is an international authority in cancer research focused on blood cancers known as leukemia. Through multiple pioneering discoveries, he has demonstrated how mitochondrial and metabolic pathways influence the development and progression of acute myeloid leukemia. As a clinician-scientist, he has translated these breakthroughs into the clinic by launching early phase clinical trials to evaluate new treatments for the disease.

Aaron Schimmer est une sommité internationale dans le domaine de la recherche sur les cancers sanguins, connus sous le nom de leucémies. Grâce à de nombreuses découvertes pionnières, il a démontré l’influence des voies mitochondriales et métaboliques sur le développement et la progression de la leucémie myéloïde aiguë. En tant que clinicien-scientifique, il a lancé des essais cliniques de phase précoce pour évaluer de nouveaux traitements de la maladie.

SCHLICH, Thomas – Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University Thomas Schlich is an eminent scholar in the history of modern surgery. His research has examined the rationale for surgery—why surgeons open the body—and the techniques they developed to do so—how they do it. Schlich’s work thus elucidates the history of medical innovation in its scientific, intellectual and social context, including organ transplants, metal implants in fracture treatment and minimally invasive surgery.

Thomas Schlich est un éminent chercheur en histoire de la chirurgie moderne. Ses recherches portent sur la logique de la chirurgie – les raisons pour lesquelles les chirurgiens ouvrent le corps – et sur les techniques développées à cette fin – les manières dont ils le font. Ses travaux éclairent ainsi l’histoire de l’innovation médicale dans ses contextes scientifique, intellectuel et social, y compris les transplantations d’organes, les implants métalliques dans le traitement des fractures et la chirurgie non effractive.

SCHMIDT, Bonnie - Department of Science, Engineering, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Western University Bonnie Schmidt, the founder of “Let’s Talk Science”, is a pioneer in science education for Canadian school children and teachers. Due to Bonnie’s drive and exceptional dedication, the initiative she started as a graduate student over 20 years ago is now a multi-dimensional national programme, providing over six million Canadian children, regardless of gender, race or social standing, the opportunity to develop their skills in problem solving and critical thinking.

Bonnie Schmidt, fondatrice de Parlons sciences, est une pionnière au chapitre de la formation scientifique s’adressant aux enfants, aux adolescents et aux enseignants d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Grâce à son dynamisme et à son dévouement, l’initiative qu’elle a lancée alors qu’elle terminait ses études universitaires il y a plus de 25 ans s’est transformée en un organisme de bienfaisance d’envergure nationale qui a déjà touché près de sept millions de Canadiens. Parlons sciences suscite l’intérêt de tous les jeunes indépendamment de leur sexe, de leurs antécédents culturels ou de leur situation géographique, les aidant à développer les compétences et les attitudes dont ils auront besoin pour répondre aux exigences professionnelles et citoyennes d’un monde en rapide évolution.

SCHOFIELD, Stephen – Arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal Professor and renowned artist for the variety and the quality of his practice namely in sculptures, Stephen Schofield has lead an exceptional career for over thirty years in Canada and abroad. Considered as one the most important artists who have transformed Canadian contemporary sculpture, his works are exhibited in the most famous museums, galleries and artist centres in Canada.

SCHOFIELD, Stephen – Arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal Professeur et artiste reconnu pour la richesse et la variété de sa pratique, notamment en sculpture, Stephen Schofield mène une carrière remarquable depuis trente ans au Canada et à l’étranger, notamment à New York et Paris. Considéré comme l’un des artistes canadiens ayant le plus transformé le paysage de la sculpture contemporaine au Canada, ses oeuvres sont exposées dans les plus importants musées, galeries et centres artistiques au pays.

Gary John Schrobilgen, Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, has made important contributions in two major areas of main-group inorganic chemistry: fluorine chemistry and the polyatomic anions of the main-group elements. He is best known for his outstanding contributions to the experimentally challenging field of fluorine chemistry, encompassing the syntheses and structural characterization of a significant number of the known compounds of the noble gases as well as fluoro- and oxofluoro-derivatives of the main-group and transition elements in their highest oxidation states and at the limits of coordination. He is particularly known for the syntheses of new xenon-nitrogen bonds and for the first krypton-nitrogen and krypton-oxygen bonds and for his application of multi-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Raman spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography to the elucidation of the structures of highly unstable compounds. His work has been of importance in our understanding of structure and chemical bonding in so-called "hypervalent" molecules and in main-group ring, cage and cluster molecules.

SCHULTE, Patricia M. – Department of Zoology, The University of British Columbia Patricia Schulte is a world-leading authority in evolutionary physiology. She is internationally recognized for her work linking genomics, epigenomics, biochemistry and physiology to assess the performance of fishes in a changing environment. Her pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms that underlie inter-individual variation in resilience to environmental change has had significant implications for both the conservation of natural fish populations and aquaculture in a changing world.

Patricia Schulte est une spécialiste mondiale dans la physiologie évolutive. Elle est reconnue internationalement pour ses travaux associant la génomique, l’épigénomique, la biochimie et la physiologie afin d’évaluer l’évolution des poissons dans un environnement changeant. Ses travaux novateurs sur les mécanismes moléculaires sous-tendant les variations interindividuelles de la résilience aux changements environnementaux ont eu des implications importantes pour la conservation des populations naturelles des poissons et pour l’aquaculture dans un monde en mutation.

H.P. Schwarcz has made numerous and brilliant contributions to geochemistry, quaternary geology and archaeology. Oxygen, sulphur and carbon isotope ratios have been used to interpret the history of metamorphic rocks, sulphide ores and, more recently, cave deposits. The innovative analysis of speleotherm growth rings to measure past climatic temperature, when caves were forming, led him to search for a way to measure their age. This was achieved in the establishment of the first Canadian uranium-series dating laboratory, leading to a series of articles with students and collaborators (notably D.C. Ford) recording climate changes back through the Pleistocene. These successes led in turn to his current collaborations with archaeologists, measuring critical deposits and artifacts to establish an absolute time scale for human pre-history. He has a wide diversity of interests and brings a fertile creative mind and a warm human enthusiasm to all his activities.

Marlis Schweitzer’s award-winning scholarship explores the dynamic relationships that shaped performance culture in Canada, the US, and Britain in the long nineteenth century. Since graduating in 2005, she has held multiple SSHRC grants, published two monographs, edited three essay collections, and helmed two major journals. Between 2016-18, she served as President of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. She is currently the chair of the Department of Theatre at YorkU.

Marlis Schweitzer explore les relations dynamiques qui ont façonné la culture de la performance au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne au cours du XIXe siècle et ses recherches ont remporté de nombreux prix. Depuis l’obtention de son diplôme en 2005, elle a reçu de nombreuses bourses du CRSH, publié deux monographies, édité trois recueils d’essais et dirigé deux revues importantes. De 2016 à 2018, elle a été présidente de l’Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale. Elle dirige actuellement le département de théâtre de l’Université York.