As the Integrated Vice-President, Research and Innovation, you will participate in both organizations’ executive teams; develop an overarching vision for integrated research and innovation that is represented in transformational initiatives of both organizations and the provincial system as a whole; actively engage and work with the research, medical and health professional communities to address goals and opportunities, with a focus on health outcomes; initiate, develop and continually enhance external relationships; and create and foster a "culture of discovery".

As the visionary leader of the Foundation, the President and Chief Executive Officer is responsible for developing and directing strategic and innovative programs which promote research excellence and generate benefits for the health and health care of British Columbians. Promoting collaboration among organizations and across multiple jurisdictions, the incumbent works with government, institutions and researchers to advance health research and address health and health system priorities.

The Children’s Health Policy Centre (CHPC)-- an interdisciplinary research group in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, downtown Vancouver campus -- is seeking a new Scientific Evaluation Director to manage a new $5 million initiative relating to the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a landmark targeted prevention program designed to improve the lives of vulnerable first-time mothers and their children

The Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Digital Media, Art and Design at Emily Carr will provide academic leadership within IDS for a new research program that investigates the relationship between input devices, including gestural controllers, display technologies, and digital media including S3D. The context for this research is the work faculty are pursuing in interactive and dynamic media. The Chair will also work closely with lab researchers and collaborators in Canada, to develop new initiatives in the digital area.

The Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in HealthCare Design at Emily Carr will provide academic leadership for the Health Design Lab and, with administrative support, will manage the operations of the Lab.  The Research Chair will be expected to develop the leading Lab in Canada in this field, and to establish the quantitative and qualitative value that the design disciplines can bring to pressing healthcare issues.

Applications are invited from emerging leaders in the area of Basin Dynamics, for a Tier II Canada Research Chair position at the University of Calgary. As part of the university’s strategic focus on Energy and Environment, the incumbent will join a world-class team of scholars in sedimentology, tectonics, petroleum geoscience, geochemistry and geophysics as well as research scientists at Natural Resources Canada (Geological Survey of Canada) who are involved in Arctic Basins research.

The Planetary Exploration group is looking for two Post Doctoral fellows to work on various aspects of the Alpha-Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS). The APXS is an in-situ x-ray spectrometer for elemental analysis with a long history of successful deployments on Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rover missions. An improved APXS will be launched on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) end of 2011.

Applications are invited for a research-professor position at the rank of assistant professor (non tenure-track) in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. The successful applicant will have a PhD in computer science, an outstanding research record, and expertise in the following areas: (1) formal methods, (2) complexity theory and algorithm design, (3) program transformation and code generation, (4) debugging and tracing, (5) fault-tolerance, and (6) runtime verification.

The Department of Civil Engineering, in collaboration with the Centre for Environmental Engineering Research and Education, in the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary is seeking a world-class researcher to spearhead research programmes and to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in advanced wastewater treatment.

The Faculty of Social Sciences comprises nine departments, schools and institute, offering undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs in both English and French. With over 9,000 students, 260 full-time professors, and a wide array of programs and research centres, the Faculty of Social Sciences plays a key role at the heart of the University of Ottawa. Its graduate students are trained by excellent researchers and undertake cutting-edge research in the Faculty’s Master’s and Ph.D. programs.

A one year, full time Research Associate position is available in the Botany Department at the University of British Columbia. This position is to investigate the relationships between signaling, cell proliferation, and developmental regulation in Arabidopsis.

Two post-doctoral fellowships are available immediately for highly motivated and organized individuals to help design and coordinate a new multi-investigator interdisciplinary research program on oil sands management and environmental risk assessment.

Studentships available for excellent candidates interested in pursuing research in protein structure and function. The Training Program will (a) train students in key technologies and (b) provide a research environment where the student can apply these skills to important topics in scientific and health research.

We believe that future biopharmaceutical activity and faculty demand will be in the areas of common diseases, such as infectious diseases, atopy and autoimmunity. Due to the multifactorial character of these diseases, tomorrow's researchers are expected to work in multidisciplinary teams of scientists. Multidisciplinary approaches to scientific problems have long been advocated and successfully implemented by the McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance.

Training the next generation of clinician-scientists and research Pathologists with transdisciplinary competence in histopathology, genomics, proteomics, molecular cytogenetics and advanced molecular micro-imaging techniques.

Allergy and Asthma: Molecular Regulation to Population Health. Research training opportunities in epidemiology, immunology, physiology, infectious disease, and clinical allergy research.

In this leadership role, and with a commitment to innovative practices in teaching and research, you will develop and promote performance indicators which measure transformation in care. Reporting jointly to the Vice President, Medical and Academic Affairs and Vice President, Research at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, you’ll expand a provincial program that serves children and youth from across Ontario. Serve as an ambassador for Holland Bloorview in the development and implementation of evidence informed care and the development of collaborative research partnerships both internally and externally.

Targeted at those working in the broad transdisciplinary themes of Reproduction and Complications of Pregnancy and Systems Development and Birth Defects. This Program blends together existing training programs in genetics, molecular biology, pediatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, epidemiology, and health services under one umbrella to offer a multi-disciplinary curriculum of courses and mentoring programs that stress transdisciplinary thinking and research opportunities.

As Holland Bloorview enters this new chapter of cutting-edge research, teaching and evidence- based care, the organization is seeking two driven leaders to advance the academic and applied research mandate.

A Ph.D. and/or M.D. with extensive research and administrative experience, you have led a thriving team in a major program of research in an academic hospital. Comfortable in the worlds of grants, intellectual property and hands-on research, you will add passion, energy and international impact to leading world class research in children’s rehabilitation.