Recipients from the field of chemistry of the Government of Canada’s biannual Canada Research Chair program — created to attract some of the world’s most accomplished scholars —include the following: 

  • Murray Gray, FCIC, University of Alberta, Canada Research Chair in Oilsands Upgrading.
  • Zhenge Xu, University of Alberta, Canada Research Chair in Mineral Processing.
  • David Vocadlo, Simon Fraser University, Canada Research Chair in Chemical Glycobiology.
  • Eric Brown, McMaster University, Canada Research Chair in Microbial Chemical Biology.
  • Philip Jessop, Queen’s University, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry.
  • Xuelian Andy Sun, Western University, Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion.