Sponsored by the E. W. R. Steacie Endowment Fund (Supported by the CSC Board and some Subject Divisions of the CIC and CSC)



The E. W. R. Steacie Award is presented to a scientist who has made a distinguished contribution to chemistry while working in Canada.

View the Terms of Reference and list of Past Winners

The 2024 winner of the E. W. R. Steacie Award is:

Hanadi Sleiman, MCIC
University of McGill
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Hanadi Sleiman is a Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and was a CNRS postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn’s laboratory at the Université Louis Pasteur. She joined the faculty at McGill University in 1999, where her research group focuses on using DNA as a guiding molecule, to assemble nanostructures for biological and materials applications. 

Sleiman is a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK, 2023) and of the Royal Society of Canada (2016), Associate Editor of J. Am. Chem. Soc. (since 2018), and Editorial Advisory Board member of Chem, J. Org. Chem., ChemBioChem, and Trends in Chem. 

Among her research recognitions are the NSERC Polanyi Award (2021), Cottrell STAR Award (2021), Grifols Albus Award (2018), Killam Research Fellowship (2018), Canadian Society of Chemistry R. U. Lemieux Award (2018), Netherlands Scholar Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (2018), Izatt-Christensen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry (2016), Canadian Society for Chemistry Strem Award (2009), NSERC Discovery Accelerator (2008), McGill Dawson Award (2004-13), Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2004-12) and Cottrell Scholar (Research Corp., 2002). She received named lectureships including Ayer (U. Alberta), Hirschmann (U. Wisconsin-Madison), Cambridge Energy Transition Lecture (U. Cambridge), Bristol-Myers-Squibb (Columbia U. and MIT), Swiss Chemical Society (U. Genève, EPFL, U. Neuchâtel, U. Fribourg, U. Basel) and E. Gordon Young (Chemical Institute of Canada). 

Sleiman received the McGill Principal’s Prize (2002) and the Leo Yaffe Award (2005) for Excellence in Teaching. 

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Past Winners

2023

Ian Manners, FCIC

University of Victoria
Society: CSC
2022

Linda F. Nazar

University of Waterloo
Society: CSC
2021

Roderick E. Wasylishen, MCIC

University of Alberta
Society: CSC
2020

Mark Lautens, FCIC

University of Toronto
Society: CSC
2019

Douglas W. Stephan

University of Toronto
Society: CSC
2018

Josef Zwanziger

Dalhousie University
Society: CSC
2017

Jillian Buriak

University of Alberta
Society: CSC
2016

Richard Oakley, FCIC

University of Waterloo
Society: CSC
2015

William Cullen

University of British Columbia
Society: CSC
2014

A. B. P. Lever

York University
Society: CSC
2013

Lewis E. Kay

University of Toronto
Society: CSC