Polanyi Prize Winners - Council of Ontario Universities

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Polanyi Prize Winners

1987-2022

2022	Sponsoring University
Dr. Isabella Huberman	Department of French, University of Toronto
Dr. Alana Ogata	Department of Chemistry/Chemical & Physical Sciences, University of Toronto
Dr. Kieran Quinn	Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Dr. Joshua Speagle	Department of Statistical Sciences, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto
Dr. Michael Stepner	Department of Economics, University of Toronto

2021	Sponsoring University
Dr. Fumin Guo	Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Dr. Eno Hysi	Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Dr. Gwendolyn Eadie	Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Dr. Adam Lavecchia	Department of Economics, McMaster University
Dr. Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh	Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University

2020	Sponsoring University
Dr. Graeme Howe	Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University
Dr. Marcus Drover	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor
Dr. Daphne Voineskos	Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Roy Allen	Department of Economics, Western University
Dr. Miriam Diamond	Department of Physics, University of Toronto

2019	Sponsoring University
Dr. Ramon Alain Miranda Quintana	Department of Chemistry, York University
Dr. Abel Brodeur	Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
Dr. Audrey Walton	Department of English and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Dr. Maria Drout	Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Dr. Mamatha Bhat	Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

2018	Sponsoring University
Dr. Aron Broom	Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa
Dr. Christopher Caputo	Department of Chemistry, York University
Dr. Jiaying Gu	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Jason Hunt	Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Dr. Husam Abdel-Qadir	Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

2017	Sponsoring University
Dr. Mathieu Lavallee-Adam	Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa
Dr. Ismael Mourifié	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Vinh Nguyen	Robarts Research Institute, Western University
Dr. Sarah Svenningsen	Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Dr. Areti Angeliki Veroniki	St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto

2016	Sponsoring University
Dr. John Antoniadis	Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Dr. Cesar Sosa-Padilla	Department of Economics, McMaster University
Dr. Kyle Biggar	Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University
Dr. Stephen Newman	Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa
Dr. Daniel Wright	Department of English, University of Toronto

2015	Sponsoring University
Dr. Kelly Babchishin	Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa
Dr. Riccardo Comin	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
Dr. Benoit Lessard	Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa
Dr. Adam Shuhendler	Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Matthew Teeter	Departments of Medical Biophysics and Surgery, Western University

2014	Sponsoring University
Dr. William Bennett	Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
Dr. Rahul Deb	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Andrea Charise	Department of English, University of Toronto
Dr. Eduardo Martin-Martinez	Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Dr. Jennifer Brunet	School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa

2013	Sponsoring University
Dr. Roland Pongou	Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
Dr. David Francis Taylor	Department of English, University of Toronto
Dr. J Patrick Clancy	Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Dr. Diane Gregory	Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Jean Paul Paluzzi	Department of Biology, York University

2012	Sponsoring University
Dr. Tao Zeng	Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
Dr. Jennifer Esmail	Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Alex Hayat	Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Dr. Aristotle Voineskos	Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto
Dr. Darren Yuen	Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, University of Toronto

2011	Sponsoring University
Dr. Arash Zarrine-Afsar	Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Dr. Colin Stewart	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Miriam Spiro	Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, York University
Dr. Rowan Thomson	Department of Physics, Carleton University
Dr. Graham Scott	Department of Biology, McMaster University

2010	Sponsoring University
Dr. Benjamin Lester	Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Alex Wong	Department of Biology, Univeristy of Ottawa
Dr. Anna Lewis	Department of English, University of Ottawa
Dr. Todd Hoare	Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
Dr. Anne Broadbent	Institute of Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

2009	Sponsoring University
Dr. Nicholas Jay Mosey	Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University
Dr. Michael Kiang	Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience, McMaster University
Dr. Laura Catherine Parker	Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University
Dr. Amelia DeFalco	Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Dr. Gustavo Javier Bobonis	Department of Economics, University of Toronto

2008	Sponsoring University
Dr. Mark Taylor	Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Dr. Warren Lester Lee	Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Dr. Katherine Rebecca Larson	Department of Humanities, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Dr. Philip Paul DeCicca	Department of Economics, McMaster University
Dr. Nadine Katherine Kolas	Department of Physiology & Medicine, University of Toronto

2007	Sponsoring University
Dr. Quincy J. Almeida	Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel	Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University
Dr. R. Darren Gobert	Department of English, York University
Dr. Naomi Matsuura	Department of Medical Biophysics/Imaging Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Dr. Derek Andrew Pratt	Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University

2006	Sponsoring University
Dr. Maria DeRosa	Department of Chemistry, Carleton University
Dr. Elizabeth Gillies	Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
Dr. James Robert Allard	Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University
Dr. Roman Rafikov	Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Dr. Peter Andrew Cadieux	Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

2005	Sponsoring University
Dr. Jason Haslam	Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism, University of Western Ontario
Dr. David Bryce	Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Paul Ragogna	Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Denise Henriques	Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty of Science and Engineering, York University

2004	Sponsoring University
Dr. Chérif Matta	Department of Chemistry, McMaster University
Dr. Natalie Kazumi Goto	Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Andrea Most	Department of English, University of Toronto
Dr. Anthony Orlando Gramolini	Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto

2003	Sponsoring University
Dr. Keith Raymond Fagnou	Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Mark Bernard Stabile	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Deanne Marie Williams	Department of English, York University
Dr. Joseph Hermann Thywissen	Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Dr. Cecile Fradin	Departments of Biochemistry and Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

2002	Sponsoring University
Dr. Alex Adronov	Department of Chemistry, McMaster University
Dr. Thomas Fraser Crossley	Department of Economics, McMaster University
Dr. Juan-Luis Suarez	Department of English, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Alison Sils	Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University
Dr. Jeremy Andrew Yethon	Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University

2001	Sponsoring University
Dr. Daniel Amihud Lidar	Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Dr. Joanne Kathryn Roberts	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Joel R. Faflak	Department of English, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Carl Edward Svensson	Department of Physics, University of Guelph
Dr. Nina Jones	Molecular & Cellular Biology – Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto

2000	Sponsoring University
Dr. Diego Puga	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Marc Coppolino	Cell Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Dr. Imre J. L. Szeman	Department of English, McMaster University
Dr. Louis Barriault	Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Alexandre A. Shvartsburg	Department of Chemistry, York University

1999	Sponsoring University
Dr. John Paul Pezacki	Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Dr. Michael Gerald Smart	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Nandi Bhatia	Department of English, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Kevin John Robbie	Department of Physics, Queen’s University
Dr. Bradly Garry Wouters	Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa

1998	Sponsoring University
Dr. Louis Mercier	Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Laurentian University
Dr. Daniel Coleman	Department of English, McMaster University
Dr. Thomas Loebel	Department of English, York University
Dr. Anne Marie Salapatek	Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
Dr. Massimo Marinacci	Department of Economics, University of Toronto

1997	Sponsoring University
Dr. Deryn Fogg	Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Catherine Hayward	Department of Pathology and Medicine, McMaster University
Dr. Jeffrey Smith	Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Aephraim Steinberg	Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Dr. Julia Wright	Department of English, University of Waterloo

1996	Sponsoring University
Dr. Eleanor Dickey	Department of Classical Studies, University of Ottawa
Dr. Brigitte Lavoie	Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Sang-Chul Suh	Department of Economics, University of Windsor
Dr. Marcia Wehlau	Department of Physics, University of Waterloo

1995	Sponsoring University
Dr. Elizabeth Maria Meiering	Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
Dr. Karen Bradley Clay	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. François Rouget	Department of French, University of Toronto
Dr. Maureen Reedyk	Department of Physics, Brock University
Dr. John Douglas Crawford	Department of Psychology, York University

1994	Sponsoring University
Dr. David Hugh McConville	Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Susannah Lesley Scott	Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Calin-Andrei Mihailescu	Department of Modern Languages, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Elisabeth Joyce Nicol	Department of Physics, University of Guelph
Dr. Mary-Ellen Harper	Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa

1993	Sponsoring University
Dr. Michel Biron	Départment des lettres françaises, University of Ottawa
Dr. Stéphane Flibotte	Department of Physics, McMaster University
Dr. Eric A. Hessels	Department of Physics, York University
Dr. M. Jane Toswell	Department of English, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Gerard D. Wright	Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University

1992	Sponsoring University
Dr. Harry Benjamin	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. John Baenziger	Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa
Dr. Paul Morley	National Research Council & the Department of Physiology, University of Ottawa
Dr. Ilona Sylvia Skerjanc	Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Dr. Mary Sopta	Division of Cancer Research Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Dr. Peter Thoms	Department of English, University of Western Ontario

1991	Sponsoring University
Dr. Richard Burgess	Département des Etudes Anciennes, University of Ottawa
Dr. Warren Piers	Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Guelph
Dr. Douglas Tweed	Departments of Physiology & Ophthalmology, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Lawrence Widrow	Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto

1990	Sponsoring University
Dr. Angela Esterhammer	Department of English, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Richard Friesen	Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Dr. Paul Harrison	Departments of Chemistry, McMaster University
Dr. Nicholas Watson	Department of English, McMaster University

1989	Sponsoring University
Dr. Monica Caverson	Department of Anatomy, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Madad José Damha	Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Dr. Thomas Steele	Departments of Physics, University of Waterloo
Dr. Lisa Zeitz	Department of English, University of Western Ontario

1988	Sponsoring University
Dr. Kim Marie Baines	Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Anne Elaine Cliche	Département des lettres françaises, University of Ottawa
Dr. Patrick Deane	Departments of English, University of Western Ontario
Dr. Michael Salter	Playfair Memorial Neuroscience Unit, University of Toronto

1987	Sponsoring University
Dr. Michael Devereux	Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Dr. Richard LeBlanc	Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Dr. Hyung Mok Lee	Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Dr. Hyman Niznik	Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto