LONG Her research led to significant advances in our understanding of metal transport. In 1993, she and her group cloned the gene for Wilson disease, a disorder of copper transport causing liver and brain damage. This was the first recognition of a specific membrane transporter involved in excretion of copper from the liver. Mutation detection and development of functional assays resulted in reliable molecular diagnosis. She has made major contributions in inherited liver diseases protease inhibitor imbalance, in mapping the immunoglobulin heavy chain, in lipoprotein disease and in the identification of a gene for schizophrenia. She led international efforts for mapping chromosome 14. She is Founder and Chair of the new Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta. SHORT Diane Cox did research that led to significant advances in our understanding of metal transport She and her group cloned the gene for Wilson’s disease, a disorder of copper transport causing liver and brain damage. This was the first recognition of a specific membrane transporter involved in excretion of copper from the liver.

LONG Dr. Grant McFadden is one of the most prominent figures in his field of virology, a view shared not only by many colleagues in Canada but by eminent virologists worldwide. His numerous scientific contributions and his many novel insights, shared so generously with colleagues, have had a huge impact on fundamental understanding of the molecular biology of DNA viruses and on virus and host-cell interactions. The four areas of his most significant contributions might be summarized as: (1) The discovery and analysis of multiple classes of virus-encoded virokines and viroceptors, (2) The discovery of inhibitors of apoptosis encoded by poxviruses, (3) The analysis of poxvirus molecular biology, and (4) The discovery of novel anti-immune mechanisms of poxviruses. His work and the numerous accolades it has generated have focused an international spotlight on Canadian biological science and, more generally, on Canadian research accomplishments. SHORT Grant McFadden is one of the most prominent figures in the field of virology. His scientific contributions include the discovery and analysis of multiple classes of virus-encoded virokines and viroceptors, the discovery of inhibitors of apoptosis encoded by poxviruses and the discovery of a novel anti-immune mechanisms of poxviruses.

A Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Order of Canada, Stephen Clarkson teaches political economy at the University of Toronto. His books on the once-supreme Liberal Party of Canada include The Big Red Machine and the biography, Trudeau and Our Times, which won the Governor-General’s award for non-fiction. Having recently completed a trilogy on the political economy of North America, he is now working with colleagues at Berlin’s Free University on how norms and institutions privileging foreign corporations’ investments are entrenched—and resisted—between the regions of Europe, North America, and South America.

Membre de la Société royale du Canada et de l’Ordre du Canada, Stephen Clarkson enseigne l’économie politique à l’University of Toronto. Il a consacré plusieurs livres aux longues années pendant lesquelles le Parti libéral du Canada a exercé le pouvoir, dont The Big Red Machine et Trudeau and Our Times. Cette biographie de l’ancien premier ministre lui a valu le prix du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie essai. Stephen Clarkson vient de terminer une trilogie sur l’économie politique de l’Amérique du Nord et travaille à Berlin’s Free University à la rédaction d’un ouvrage collectif qui se penche sur la façon dont les normes et les organismes ouverts aux investissements des entreprises étrangères sont enracinés – et décriés – en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et en Amérique du Sud.

LONG Gwendolyn Davies’ specialization in the literary history of Maritime Canada integrates literary, historical, archival and bibliographical studies to shed new light on the rich cultural life created by the thousands of Planters, Loyalists and Scots whose arrival in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to an enduring cultural lineage. Her major focal points include the importance of letters in a manuscript culture, the prevalence of social satirists, and the activities of women writers, presented in detailed studies of such authors as Alice Jones and Marshall Saunders, as well as the first scholarly edition of Thomas McCulloch’s influential The Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters. SHORT Gwendolyn Davies integrates literary, historical, archival and bibliographical studies to shed new light on the cultural lineage of Maritime Canada created by the arrival of thousands of Planters, Loyalists and Scots whose arrival in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her detailed studies emphasize the importance of letters in a manuscript culture, the prevalence of social satirists, and the activities of women writers.