Scientific Advisory Committee

CANFAR funds Canadian HIV/AIDS researchers who are selected by the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), based on the excellence of their proposals.

As a committee, the SAC are ultimately responsible for selecting the most significant research projects from the many applications that they receive.

Scientific Advisory Committee

Michael Grant

Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee

Professor of Immunology, Associate Dean, BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, PhD, MSc

Dr. Stanley Read

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children; Consultant HIV/AIDS Family Centered Care Program Division for Infectious Diseases

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Dr. Lisa Barrett

Clinician Scientist, Infectious Diseases, Dalhousie University

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Alan Cochrane

Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

PhD

Dr. Ralph Pantophlet

Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

PhD

Hélène Côté

Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia

PhD

Dr. Carmen Logie

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia

PhD

Daniel Grace

Ryerson University

Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Health; Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

PhD

Trevor Hart

Director, HOPE Centre for Sexual and Gender Minority People
Professor and Director, HIV Prevention Lab

PhD, C. Psych

Dr. Michael Hawkes

Professor, Immunology, Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland

MD, PhD

Chen Liang

Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University; Interim Director, McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University

PhD

Dr. Mona Loutfy

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute; Staff Physician, Women’s College Hospital

MD, FRCPC, MPH

Paul Sandstrom

Director, National HIV & Retrovirology Laboratories, JC Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Public Health Agency of Canada

PhD

Dr. Adrienne Meyers

Director, Laboratory Integration Office of Population and Public Health, Indigenous Services Canada

PhD