Person: Dr Arvind Gupta

Six Canadians to Lead Canada-wide Digital and Data Consultations

Navdeep Bains, Federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), announced last week that the Government has selected six innovation experts to serve as roundtable discussion leaders for its national consultation on digital and data transformation. The consultation was launched on June 19th, and will be exploring how Canada can simultaneously drive innovation in…

Dr Arvind Gupta

Dr Arvind Gupta has been appointed the next president of the Univ of British Columbia. Currently CEO and scientific director of Mitacs, Gupta takes up his new position July 1st, replacing Dr Stephen Toope who will become the director of the Univ of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs on January 1/15. Since graduating from…

Dr William Fraser

Dr William Fraser has been appointed scientific director of the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) for a five-year term. Fraser was assistant director of clinical research at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Sainte-Augustine Hospital’s research centre from 2002 to 2013…. The Univ of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and…