Minister Aglukkaq announces new appointment to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

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2012-22

Ottawa (May 8, 2012) – The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today announced the appointment of Dr. Paul Kubes, PhD, to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for a three-year term.

"I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kubes," said Minister Aglukkaq. "He will be a tremendous asset to CIHR's Governing Council where he joins an already outstanding group of Canadians."

Dr. Kubes is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary and Founding Director of the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Leukocyte Recruitment in Inflammatory Disease.

Dr. Kubes was named Canada's Health Researcher of the Year in 2011 for his work in examining the role that white blood cells play in preventing and reversing sepsis – a potentially fatal condition in which the blood becomes infected by harmful bacteria. CIHR presents this prestigious award to health researchers who have demonstrated outstanding innovation, creativity, leadership and dedication.

Among his many other honours, Dr. Kubes has received the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine Smith Distinguished Achievement Award for Senior Faculty, the American Physiological Society's Henry Pickering Bowditch Lectureship, and the Alberta Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Leadership in Science.

Biographies for the members of CIHR's Governing Council can be found on the CIHR website.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 14,100 health researchers and trainees across Canada.

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