Canada Biomedical Research Fund and Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund
Stage 2—Scientific and Technical Review Committees

Scientific and technical review committees were convened by the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) and Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for each of the five research hubs. Each committee was composed of between six and 12 committee members and a chair. Additional committees were convened where the breadth of expertise required to adequately assess the proposals, or the required workload, could not be accommodated. A separate, multihub committee was convened to review proposals related to containment level three (CL3) facilities, to accommodate this specific area of expertise and adequately mitigate any security risks.

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Committees for:
Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub
Canadian Hub for Health Intelligence & Innovation in Infectious Diseases (HI3)
Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub (CP2H)
Eastern Canada Pandemic Preparedness Hub (ECaPPH)
PRAIRIE Hub for Pandemic Preparedness
Containment Level 3 Facilities

Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub

• Biomanufacturing committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Bruno Battistini (Chair)	Cantrain	Canada
  Maxim Berezovski	University of Ottawa	Canada
  Mohamed Dahmane	Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal	Canada
  Qiyin Fang	McMaster University	Canada
  Ariane Hanemaayer	Brandon University	Canada
  Abdelwahab Omri	Laurentian University	Canada
  Tanya Parish	University of Washington	United States
  Fatiha Sadat	Université du Québec à Montréal	Canada
  Houman Savoji	Université de Montréal	Canada

• Vaccines and therapeutics committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Gurmit Singh (Chair)	McMaster University	Canada
  Wangxue Chen	National Research Council	Canada
  Victor Gault	Ulster University	United Kingdom
  Afsaneh Lavasanifar	University of Alberta	Canada
  Laurel Lenz	University of Colorado	United States
  Angela Pearson	Institut national de la recherche scientifique	Canada
  Rithwik Ramachandran	Western University	Canada
  Houman Savoji	Université de Montréal	Canada
  John Sorensen	University of Manitoba	Canada
  Daniel Streblow	Oregon Health and Science University	United States
  Kapil Tahlan	Memorial University	Canada
  Lisheng Wang	University of Ottawa	Canada
  Seongkyu Yoon	University of Massachusetts Lowell	United States

Canadian Hub for Health Intelligence & Innovation in Infectious Diseases (HI3)

• Biomanufacturing and bioinformatics committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Liam Grover (Chair)	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
  Pierre Beauparlant	Finchley Healthcare Ventures	Canada
  Lauren Cowley	University of Bath	United Kingdom
  Jun Ding	McGill University Health Centre	Canada
  Andres Garcia	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
  Jinqiang Hou	Lakehead University	Canada
  Amirkianoosh Kiani	Ontario Tech University	Canada
  David Langelaan	Dalhousie University	Canada
  Shan Liao	University of Calgary	Canada
  Francis Lin	University of Manitoba	Canada
  Gregg Nyberg	Landmark Bio	United States
  Ian Tietjen	Simon Fraser University	Canada
  Jessica Vamathevan	European Molecular Biology Laboratory	United Kingdom

• Drug discovery committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Stephen Wong (Chair)	Houston Methodist	United States
  Malina Bakowski	Calibr at Scripps Research	United States
  Perdita Barran	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
  Keith Brunt	Dalhousie University	Canada
  Thu Dang	The University of British Columbia	Canada
  Iain Hunter	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom
  Uladzimir Karniychuk	The Ohio State University	United States
  Richard Kuhn	Purdue University	United States
  Frederick Sheedy	Trinity College Dublin	United Kingdom
  Seetharaman Vaidyanathan	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom

• Health systems and public health committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Paul Verkade (Chair)	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
  Daniel Coombs	The University of British Columbia	Canada
  Asif Khowaja	Brock University	Canada
  Reet Kurg	University of Tartu	Estonia
  François Meurens	Université de Montréal	Canada
  Spyridon Stavrou	SUNY, University at Buffalo	United States
  Tracey Taylor	Oakland University	United States

Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub (CP2H)

• Biomanufacturing committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Mahavir Singh (Chair)	University of Louisville	United States
  Cristiana Campa	GSK Vaccines	Italy
  Yunjeong Kim	Kansas State University	United States
  Arghya Paul	Western University	Canada
  Cristina Tato	Chan Zuckerberg Biohub	United States
  John Wilkins	University of Manitoba	Canada

• Drug development committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Stephen Spector (Chair)	University of California San Diego	United States
  Huiwang Ai	University of Virginia	United States
  Brandon Findlay	Concordia University	Canada
  Pingzhao Hu	Western University	Canada
  Lakshmi Kotra	University of Toronto	Canada
  Anthony Ting	Kiji Therapeutics	United States
  Alfred Yu	University of Waterloo	Canada

• Public health committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Marcel Bally (Chair)	The University of British Columbia	Canada
  Justin Bahl	University of Georgia	United States
  Tony Cass	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
  Shurjeel Choudhri	Bayer Inc.	Canada
  Stephen Czarnuch	Memorial University	Canada
  Qiang He	University of Tennessee	United States
  Barbara Van Der Pol	University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States

Eastern Canada Pandemic Preparedness Hub (ECaPPH)

• Biomanufacturing committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Vincent Clark (Chair)	The University of New Mexico	United States
  Edgar Arriaga	University of Minnesota	United States
  Jeffrey Chalmers	The Ohio State University	United States
  Willie Donachie	Moredun Scientific	United Kingdom
  Nathan Hillson	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	United States
  Arie Lev Gruzman	Bar-Ilan University	Israel
  Claudia Loebel	University of Michigan	United States
  Brian Meenan	Ulster University	United Kingdom
  Vikram Misra	University of Saskatchewan	Canada
  Sohail Qazi	Lambton College	Canada
  Salma Taktek	Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup	Canada

• Pandemic preparedness committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Jason Acker (Chair)	University of Alberta	Canada
  Gurmit Singh (Chair)	McMaster University	Canada
  Susan Cork	University of Calgary	Canada
  Cesar de la Fuente	University of Pennsylvania	United States
  Tom Graefenhan	University of Wurzburg	Germany
  Mads Kaern	University of Ottawa	Canada
  Philip Norris	Vitalant Research Institute	United States
  Craig Stephen	The University of British Columbia	Canada

• Public health committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Randal Johnston (Chair)	University of Calgary	Canada
  Venkata Duvvuri	University of Toronto	Canada
  Eyal Grunebaum	University of Toronto	Canada
  Ewan Harrison	Wellcome Sanger Institute	United Kingdom
  Dirk Kuhlmeier	Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology	Germany
  Sepideh Pakpour	The University of British Columbia	Canada
  Rosanna Peeling	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom
  Steve Shih	Concordia University	Canada
  David Warburton	University of Southern California	United States

PRAIRIE Hub for Pandemic Preparedness

• Diagnostics and preparedness committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  David Litchfield (Chair)	Western University	Canada
  Nathaniel Hafer	University of Massachusetts	United States
  Azadeh Kushki	Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital	Canada
  Pui-Yan Kwok	University of California, San Francisco	United States
  Nicole Ricker	University of Guelph	Canada
  Julie Shaw	University of Ottawa	Canada
  Bill Vincent	Genezen Laboratories Inc.	United States
  Andy Zaayenga	Laboratory Robotics Interest Group	United States

• Vaccines and therapeutics committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Jeffrey Medin (Chair)	Medical College of Wisconsin	United States
  Albert Berghuis	McGill University	Canada
  Timothy Brewer	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
  Kyle Brown	Moderna Canada	Canada
  Kristen Burford	Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Canada
  Karen Dobos	Colorado State University	United States
  Kerry Fisher	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
  Stéphane Gagné	Immugenia Inc.	Canada
  Kendra Maas	University of Connecticut	United States
  Nicola Shepherd	Bellows Consulting	Canada
  Leonidas Stamatatos	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	United States

Containment Level 3 Facilities

• CL3 facilities committee

  Name	Affiliation	Country
  Randy Albrecht (Chair)	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	United States
  Logan Banadyga	Public Health Agency of Canada	Canada
  Ludovic Desvignes	NYU Langone Health	United States
  Anthony Griffiths	Boston University	United States
  Lon Kendall	Colorado State University	United States
  Jay Krishnan	Public Health Agency of Canada	Canada
  Jan Langermans	Utrecht University	Netherlands
  Timothy McHugh	University College London	United Kingdom
  Olivier Reynard	Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale	France
  Steven Theriault	Cytophage Technologies Inc	Canada