Université de Montréal's affiliated hospital research center (the CRCHUM) is proud to highlight the awarding of four new Canada Research Chairs and the renewal of an existing chair. Granted through the 2026 competition of the Canada Research Chairs Program (2025-2 cycle), these distinctions reflect the excellence of the CRCHUM scientific community. The program is supporting 220 new and renewed chairs through an investment of more than $187 million.
The new chairs have been awarded to Andrés Finzi, Élie Bou Assi, Karine Bilodeau and Sophie Lerouge, while Adriana Di Polo’s chair has been renewed.
New Canada Research Chairs
Andrés Finzi, a researcher in CRCHUM’s Immunopathology Research Theme and Full Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the Université de Montréal, has been awarded the Canada Research Chair in Viral Envelope Glycoproteins (Tier 1).
Élie Bou Assi, a researcher in CRCHUM’s Neurosciences Research Theme and Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the Université de Montréal, has been awarded the Canada Research Chair in Digital Innovation in Clinical Neurosciences (Tier 2).
Karine Bilodeau, a researcher in CRCHUM’s Innovation Research Theme and Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the Université de Montréal, has been awarded the Canada Research Chair in Transitions in Oncology Care and Services (Tier 2).
Sophie Lerouge, a researcher in CRCHUM’s Imaging and Engineering Research Theme and Professor at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), has been awarded the Canada Research Chair in Injectable Hydrogels for Cell and Endovascular Therapies (Tier 1).
Chair renewal
Adriana Di Polo, a researcher in CRCHUM’s Neurosciences Research Theme and Professor at the Université de Montréal, has had her Canada Research Chair in Glaucoma and Age-Related Neurodegeneration (Tier 1) renewed.
CRCHUM warmly congratulates the researchers whose excellence has been recognized through the awarding of these new chairs and this renewal.
Canada Research Chairs
Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, these chairs support research excellence at Canadian universities and help attract and retain some of the world's most promising and accomplished researchers.
Tier 1 Chairs are awarded to outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as leaders in their fields and are renewable once after seven years. Tier 2 Chairs, awarded for a five-year term and renewable once, are intended to support exceptional emerging researchers as they establish and develop their careers.
Four new Canada Research Chairs and one renewal at CRCHUM
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