Rebecca J. Cook, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, is an internationally recognized leader in the development of international human rights law. She is noted for her expertise on women's rights, women's health, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and state responsibility for violations of women's human rights. Through her scholarship and activism, she has made linkages between global issues affecting women and international human rights law. Her work has led to concrete improvements in women's lives worldwide, and has been widely disseminated in leading law and health journals.

Jagannath Prasad Das, Developmental Disabilities Centre, University of Alberta, is a world class scholar and researcher in several areas of cognitive and educational psychology. His central interest over the years has been the study of intelligence – its nature, development, assessment, and dysfunction – and he has made major contributions to these topics, both in theory and in application. He extended Luria's clinical observations and fashioned them into a theory of intelligence whose central features are attention, planning, simultaneous and successive cognitive processing. Das applied this theory to the study and assessment of cognitive development and mental retardation.

David Dyzenhaus, Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, is a leading legal philosopher whose work tackles the relationship between law and morality, and between these and political practice. His scholarship exposes some of the deep tensions in liberal theory, by working through these tensions in the context of the apartheid legal order, pornography and the freedom of expression, administrative law and Weimar legal theory. What has emerged from his scholarship is the development of a compelling anti-positivist position as well as a clear demonstration of the importance of legal theory for legal practice.

HODGINS, Jack - Department of Creative Writing, University of Victoria (RETIRED) Jack Hodgins' imaginative fiction masterfully explores the history, the people and the places of the coast of British Columbia. He is internationally acclaimed for his achievements in both the novel and short story forms, admired for the complex morality of his subjects, as well as his structural and linguistic ability. He has received numerous honours for his works, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the regional Commonwealth Prize. In 2010 he was made a member of the Order of Canada.

Dans ses romans pleins d’imagination, Jack Hodgins raconte de façon magistrale l'histoire, les gens et les lieux du littoral de la Colombie-Britannique. Il est reconnu sur la scène internationale pour ses romans aussi bien que pour ses nouvelles, admiré pour la moralité complexe de ses thèmes ainsi que pour sa langue et ses formes inventives. Son œuvre a été couronnée de nombreux prix, dont le Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie du roman et le Commonwealth Prize régional. En 2010, il a reçu l’Ordre du Canada.

Susan Sherwin, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, is unique in stature among Canadian philosophers. She is an internationally-known scholar whose work at the intersection of feminist philosophy and the study of health care policy and practice has laid the foundation for feminist health care ethics. Sherwin is also a university and public educator on issues embracing euthanasia, genetics, biotechnology, reproductive technologies and practices, abortion and cancers. She works to reduce the moral oppression inherent in cultural preconceptions, including familiar metaphors, that are woven into received medical practice, notably where agency and autonomy are at issue.

Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, is one of Canada's leading philosophers of science. He has a brilliant academic career and has been working intensively in the philosophy of artificial intelligence and cognitive of science for the past twenty years. His work is marked by many distinctions, most recently by a Killam award for the years 1997-1999 to work on a project entitled "Making Sense: Coherence in Thought and Action". His new book on the philosophy of science as applied to medicine is entitled "How Scientists Explain Disease".

Lorne Allan Babiuk, Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, has an international reputation in virology and infectious diseases. He has contributed invaluable information to the bovine herpesvirus- 1 (BHV-1) field, developed a vaccine against the virus, played a significant role in culturing the newly discovered bovine rotaviruses and unravelled some of the roles of cytokines in immune modulation. His work has had a significant economic impact in Canada and has reduced animal suffering generally. As Director of the VIDO, Babiuk plays a seminal role as a scientist, supervisor of post-graduate students, administrator and entrepreneur.

Rhoda Blostein, Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, McGill University, is a pioneer in fundamental studies of the sodium/potassium exchange pump (Na/K ATPase) that is crucial to cellular functions such as volume regulation, nutrient uptake and nerve impulse propagation. Her work has influenced knowledge of ion pump mechanisms. She demonstrated the existence of a labile phosphorylated intermediate during Na/K ATPase catalysis in red cell membranes. Using inverted red cell membrane vesicles she delineated the membrane sidedness of cation interactions with the ATPase. She obtained direct evidence of the alternate use of Na+ and protons by the Na/K- and gastric H/K-ATPases. She has provided the first definitive evidence that cardiac glycoside binding occurs in the C-terminal half of the Na/K-ATPase. Her work provides new insights into the structural basis for the coupling of conformational changes to ATP hydrolysis by Na/K-ATPase.

John Harvey Borden, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, has been responsible for major discoveries in insect-plant interactions, chemical ecology, semiochemical composition, production and function. He has led an interdisciplinary group of scientists who have made seminal contributions to the understanding of the chemical systems that are used by insects to communicate with one another. Borden and his students have used these laboratory discoveries to develop viable pest management protocols to protect forests, stored products and fruit and vegetable crops from insect attack. He has had a profound impact on pest management practices in Canada and elsewhere.

Kenneth Leslie Denman, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Sidney, British Columbia, is an internationally respected scientist who helped establish the linkages between physical and biological processes in the upper ocean. He was one of the first oceanographers to model the wind-mixed layer and among the first to recognize the importance of this layer to planktonic productivity. His application of spectral analysis methods to plankton dynamics has been the basis of many new developments in marine ecology. A coupled biogeochemical mixed layer model developed by Denman is providing new insight into how planktonic ecosystems regulate, store, and transform oceanic carbon, topics critical to our understanding of global climate change.

Frank Lawson Graham, Departments of Biology and Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, has made a series of significant contributions in the fields of molecular virology and cancer research. He developed the Calcium Phosphate method of DNA transfection that has had an impact on many disciplines investigating gene function. Graham developed the 293 cell line used around the world to investigate molecular processes in oncogenesis. He also developed rapid methods for adenovirus vector construction for gene therapy and made these available to laboratories world-wide. Most recently, he implemented a direct gene therapeutic approach to cancer treatment using recombinant adenoviral vectors expressing immune regulation genes and has taken this approach through to human trials.