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McGill’s annual BRAVO event celebrates the cream of the researcher crop. Last night, Dr. Rose Goldstein, McGill’s Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations), welcomed guests to the sixth edition of BRAVO. She shared her pride in McGill’s prize-winning research, and all the discoveries that have made significant contributions to Canadian, and global, society. “It is also very much a time to celebrate the important people behind the many outstanding research accomplishments we celebrate tonight,” she told the audience gathered at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, “I would like to recognize, and I know our prize winners will also want to recognize, the contributions of our colleagues, students, staff, collaborators, funding agencies, our governments, our partners in the private sector and all of those who make your groundbreaking research and scholarship possible.” Joined by Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum and Chancellor H. Arnold Steinberg, Goldstein honored the McGillians who received some of the most prestigious Canadian awards during the past 12 months:

Prix ACFAS – J.-Armand-Bombardier: Gregory Dudek (Department of Computer Science)

E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship: Guy Moore (Department of Physics)

NSERC 2010 Synergy Award for Innovation, Leo Derikx category: Roderick I.L. Guthrie (Department of Mining and Materials Engineering), Mihaiela Isac (McGill Metal Processing Centre)

Royal Society of Canada Fellowships:
Barbara E. Jones (Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery)
Rima Rozen (Human Genetics and Pediatrics)
Michel Loreau (Department of Biology)
Siegfried Hekimi (Department of Biology)
Mark Sutton (Department of Physics)
Alain Pinsonneault (Information Systems)
Tho Le-Ngoc (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Colin Chapman (McGill School of Environment and Department of Anthropology)
Lydia White (Associate Vice-Provost – Policies, Procedures and Equity)
Christine Ross (Department of Art History and Communication Studies)
Robin Yates (Department of History)
Diane Desrosiers-Bonin (Department of French Language and Literature)
Russell Davidson (Department of Economics)

Les Prix du Québec, Prix Léon-Gérin:
Nancy J. Adler (Desautels Faculty of Management)

Les Prix du Québec, Prix Wilder Penfield:
Mark Wainberg (McGill AIDS Centre)

Order of Canada:
Nahum Sonenberg (Department of Biochemistry)
Alice Chan-Yip (Pediatric Consultation Centre)
Margaret Lock (Departments of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine)
Claudio Cuello (Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
James C. MacDougall (Department of Psychology)
Ernesto Schiffrin (Department of Medicine)
Sylvia Cruess (Centre for Medical Education)
Maurice McGregor (Department of Medicine)
Dr. Gilles Julien (Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics)

Killam Research Fellowship:
Victoria Kaspi (Department of Physics)

The NSERC John C. Polanyi Award:
Victoria Kaspi (Department of Physics)

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame:
Dr. Albert Aguayo (Centre for Research in Neuroscience)