Dr. Joseph B. Martin is the inaugural prizewinner of the 2006 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.

Joseph B. Martin, M.D., Ph.D., Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Neurobiology and Clinical Neuroscience, has been Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine since 1997. Prior to his current position, Dr. Martin served for four years as Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and four years as the Chancellor of UCSF. During his tenure as Dean, he established the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neurosciences dedicated to combining studies of the brain and behavior, the Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology dedicated to AIDS research, and began planning for a Comprehensive Cancer Center. As Chancellor there he prepared a long-range development plan for the renewal of the campus, obtaining a commitment from the City of San Francisco to expand the UCSF Campus to a second major site in Mission Bay.

At Harvard, he helped establish, in 1999, the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, an innovative collaboration which brings together seven Harvard-affiliated institutions intent on reducing the burden of cancer. In 2001, with the support of an anonymous donor, Dr. Martin formed the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair, a virtual community of over 500 neurology and neuroscientist faculty and researchers working together on understanding the prevention, causes, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. In 2003, Dr. Martin dedicated Harvard Medical School’s New Research Building. This 525,000 square foot structure, the largest building ever constructed at Harvard, is designed to cultivate scientific collaboration between the basic and clinical sciences.

Dr. Martin was born in Bassano, Alberta, Canada in 1938. He received his premedical and medical education at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, earning the M.D. degree in 1962. He completed a residency in neurology in 1966 and fellowship in neuropathology in 1967 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and received his Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of Rochester in 1971.

The Henry G. Friesen International Prize

Lectures 1 and 2

 

Friends of CIHR is proud to announce the publication of the Friesen Prize Lectures 1 and 2 featuring Dr. Joseph B. Martin, the inaugural Prizewinner (2006) and Dr. John R. Evan, the 2007 Prize Laureate.

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2006 Annual General Meeting and Open Meeting of the Board of Directors
September 26, 2006 – Ottawa Ontario
Sheraton Ottawa Hotel

2006 The Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research (Inaugural)
“Brain Disease: Health Research Policy for the Public Good”
Address by Dr. Joseph B. Martin, Dean, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University; inaugural 2006 winner of The Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.

September 27, 2006 – Ottawa Ontario
“Exploring New Models for Translational Research”
Address by Dr. Joseph B. Martin.

FRIESEN PRIZE INSTITUTIONAL VISIT 2007

“Brain Disease: Health Research Policy for the Public Good”
Address by Dr. Joseph B. Martin, Dean, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University; inaugural 2006 winner of The Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research
March 26, 2007
University of Manitoba
Institutional visit Program