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The Montréal Medal/Médaille de Montréal is presented as a mark of distinction and honour to a resident of Canada who has shown significant leadership in or has made an outstanding contribution to the profession of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada.
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The 2026 winner of the Montréal Medal/Médaille de Montréal is:
Stacey Wetmore, FCIC
University of Lethbridge
After receiving her BSc from Mount Allison and PhD from Dalhousie, Dr. Stacey Wetmore completed her postdoctoral studies at the Australian National University. She then accepted a faculty position at Mount Allison and subsequently moved to the University of Lethbridge. As a Tier I Canada Research Chair, her research uses the full spectrum of computational approaches and close collaborations with experimentalists to study how naturally occurring or environmentally-derived nucleic acid derivatives are processed in cells, and to design synthetic analogues with applications in medicine or nanotechnology. Dr. Wetmore is widely sought after to serve on national and international research, policy, and editorial boards, peer-review panels, society committees, and conference panels. She has contributed to boards overseeing funding programs, research computing resources, and broader support for the scientific community. Her strong committee work led to appointments as Chair for the Alliance Chemistry Resource Allocation Competition, the NSERC Chemistry Evaluation Group, NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, and NSERC Discovery Frontiers. She also holds leadership roles in scientific publishing, including co-Editor-in-Chief of our national chemistry journal. She advocates for equity, diversity, and inclusion, works to reduce bias in peer review, and supports research capacity at smaller institutions through student programming, training initiatives, and inclusive chemistry groups.