CIC board of directors nominations (2008-2009)/Nominations pour le Conseil de direction de L'ICC (2008-2009).

The Nominating Committee, appointed under the terms of CIC By-Law Article X, Section 1, has proposed these candidates to serve as the Institute officers for 2008-2009. Further nominations are solicited from the membership for the positions of chair and vice-chair. They must be submitted in writing, must have the written and signed consent of the nominee to serve if elected, and must be signed by no fewer than 25 members in good standing of the Institute (CIC By-Law Article X, Section 3 (d)). The deadline for receipt of any additional nominations is Monday, January 21, 2008. If any elections are required, ballots will be mailed in February. Those elected--whether by ballot or acclamation--will take office following the annual general meeting of the Institute on May 26, 2008, in Edmonton, AB.

En vertu de l'article X, section 1, du reglement de I'ICC, le Comite des candidatures propose la candidature ces personnes aux postes d'administrateur pour 2008-2009. Les membres sont invites a soumettre d'autres candidatures pour les postes de president et de vice-president. Celles-ci doivent etre presentees par ecrit, etre accompagnees du consentement ecrit et signe par le candidat a remplir la charge s'il est elu, et doivent etre signees par au moins 25 membres en regle de l'Institut (article X, section 3 (d) du reglement de I'ICC). La date limite pour soumettre d'autres candidatures est le 21 janvier 2008. Advenant qu'un scrutin soit necessaire, les bulletins seront postes en fevrier. Les personnes elues par scrutin ou par acclamation entreront en fonction aprss l'assemblee generale annuelle de l'Institut, qui aura lieu le 26 mai 2008, a Edmonton (Alberta).

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Murray R. Gray, FCIC

Chair 2008-2009

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

University of Alberta

Murray R. Gray has been with the University of Alberta (U of A) since 1983. He has held a number of senior academic positions at the U of A, including chair of the department of chemieal engineering and dean of graduate studies and research. He is currently director of the Imperial Oil-Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Oil Sands Innovation. With over 22 years of experience in kinetics and reaction engineering, Gray has focused on bitumen and heavy oil upgrading and bioprocessing. His achievements have been recognized by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) Syncrude Innovation Award (1996), the CSChE Industrial Practice Award (2003), and the Frank Spragins Technical Award from APEGGA (2007). In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, He holds the NSERC Industrial Research Chair and Canada Research Chair in Oil Sands Upgrading. He has served the national and international engineering and science communities in many roles, including national president of the CSChE and chair of the NSERC Chemical/Metallurgical Engineering Grant Selection Committee.

Gray obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1984. He also holds a MEng degree in chemical engineering from the University of Calgary (1980) and a BSc in chemical engineering (with honours) from the University of Toronto (1978).

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David Dolphin, FCIC, O.C.

Vice-Chair 2008-2009

Vice-President of Technology Development

QLT Inc.

As the vice-president of technology development at Quadra Logic Technologies, Dolphin was instrumental in the discovery, development, and commercialization of Visudyne [TM], and the establishment of one of Canada's most renowned university spin-off companies, QLT Inc. Visudyne has already saved the vision of hundreds of thousands of people afflicted with "wet" age-related macular degeneration. Visudyne is the most successful ophthalmic product ever registered. It has been approved in more than 70 countries. More than 600,000 patients have been treated, and more than $2 billion of the drug has been sold.

Dolphin holds more than 160 patents and has been internationally recognized for his industrial research. In 2002, Dolphin was awarded the Prix Galien along with Julia Levy. In 2004, he was designated a Hero of Chemistry by the American Chemical Society.

Dolphin obtained his PhD at the University of Nottingham in 1965 and then moved to Harvard University where he spent a year as a post-doctoral Fellow with Nobel Laureate Robert Burns Woodward. He then joined the faculty of the chemistry department at Harvard where he stayed for a decade before moving to The University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1974. He is an Emeritus University Killam Professor and the QLT/NSERC Industrial Research Professor in Photodynamic Technologies at UBC. Before joining QLT, he was the acting dean of science at UBC, and he has been acting vice-president of research at UBC in 1999-2000 and in 2005. He is the author and editor of 18 books on spectroscopy, chemistry, and biochemistry and has published over 400 research papers.

Dolphin is a CIC Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was elected a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980 and awarded a DSc from his alma mater, Nottingham University, in 1982. In 1990, he was awarded the Gold Medal in Health Sciences by the Science Council of British Columbia. He was the 1993 recipient of the CIC's Syntex Award and in the same year, he was the recipient of the Bell Canada Forum Award. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. He received the Friesen Rygiel Prize in 2002, and in the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). In 2004, he received the CSPS Award of Leadership in Canadian Pharmaceutical Sciences. In 2005, he was awarded the NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal, the Council's highest honour. In the spring of 2006, Dolphin was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Statement of Policy

The times and the problems we face are changing. In the past decade, the support of research at our institutes of higher learning has been at an all-time high, thanks to both the federal and provincial governments. But now the politicians are, quite rightly, asking what the return on the investment is? There is already increasing pressure to see that the ideas arising out of the basic, curiosity-driven research be translated and commercialized. There is a clear need for such commercialization--especially in Canada where the vast majority of our companies are SMEs. However, the CIC must ensure that an appropriate balance be maintained between the funding of basic and applied research. We should play a key role in this as well as helping to design and drive policies that will ensure the best interactions between governments, academic institutions, and industry.

Climate change and other environmental concerns, renewable energy, and the ever-increasing move towards interdisciplinary research pose challenges and great opportunities for chemists, chemical engineers, and chemical technologists. Indeed the advances being made in genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, and material sciences will continue to rely heavily on the broad chemical disciplines. We must ensure that chemical professionals maintain their dominant role in these endeavours. The number of highly qualified personnel in our disciplines is already decreasing, and demographics indicate that this will become an increasing problem in the future. We must ensure that young Canadians become interested in chemistry at an early age and that every opportunity is made for them to pursue careers in the chemical fields.