2021 Member Value Report

In February 2021, the PHRC and Research Canada hosted Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of Insulin: Diabetes Research and Innovation in the Making, a celebration of the huge strides and key advances in mapping and understanding the physiology, biochemistry and genetics of diabetes held on the anniversary of Banting and Best’s discovery of insulin in Toronto in 1921. [...] Aubie Angel, the founding and current President of Friends of CIHR (FCIHR), Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and Senior Fellow at Massey College of the University of Toronto, and the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences, a professional association of active researchers and students in the fields of biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology and genetics. [...] He was also a driving force in the establishment of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Friends of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, an organization dedicated to sharing the benefits of health research with Canadians. [...] Election 2021: Your Candidates, Your Health In the fall of 2021, Research Canada launched the Your Candidates, Your Health 2021 Federal Election Campaign to provide its Members with the tools and resources necessary to effectively advocate for and educate 2021 Federal Election Candidates about the social and economic benefits of Canadian health research and innovation. [...] Exclusive Events for Research Canada Members Research Canada continued to work closely to bring political insights from Hill+Knowlton’s Michelle McLean to Members through multiple Members-only webinars, including one which unpacked the implications of the Budget for the health research and health and biosciences communities and one regarding the results of the 2021 federal election and what the re.