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 CIHR
CELEBRATES 1st ANNIVERSARY
Since CIHR was launched on June 7,
2000, they have:
- appointed a President and Governing
Council
- created 13 Institutes
- named 13 Scientific Directors to head
the Institutes
- appointed 218 Institute Advisory Board
members to assist the SDs
- held more than 50 meetings involving
Council and its committees
- facilitated over 550 meetings,
university visits and events featuring SDs
- welcomed 62 new staff including 24
summer students in 2001
- lost 130 pounds through the employee
Weight Watcher program
- sent the President or senior managers to
more than 100 speaking engagements from Prince Edward Island to Australia
- developed an e-service strategy
inaugurated by the common CV project
- worked with the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to
harmonize award administration
- helped design and implement a program to
provide 2000 research chairs across Canada
- processed 5956 grant applications
- invested @ $370 million in 5,743 grants
and awards to researchers in 70 Canadian universities, hospitals and research centres plus
132 grants to other organizations in Canada and 1 outside the country
- increased the total number of grants by
10% and their average value by 20%
- provided 820 studentships and doctoral
research awards
- awarded 676 postdoctoral and senior
research fellowships
- funded 106 Canada Research Chairs
- supported 21 clinical trials including
several large international trials
- been associated with major breakthroughs
in understanding of cell growth regulation, cell life span control, treatment of diabetes,
improved brain function, preventing birth complications, neural centre for emotion,
genetics of prostate cancer, stem cell stimulation and cancer control.
- involved 16 Rx& D companies and 21
University Industry partners in various projects and maintained and added to our links
with over 80 other partners
- supported 29 large multidisciplinary
projects involving more than 500 investigators, 80 partners in 5 countries and $77 million
over three to five years
- launched the CIHR Intranet and Institute
web sites
- developed the CIHR researcher database
for our web site
- published assorted booklets and
information pieces on Ethics, tips for grant applications, and CIHR
- launched a program for developing
science writers.
- issued 40 press releases
- appeared in 537 media stories
- translated nearly 2 million words
- answered over 7,000 calls at the
reception desk
- processed 24,425 pieces of incoming mail
through registry and sent out 20,000
- received 26,515,441 hits on our web site
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