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ISBN 0-662-66937-1
ICRH Annual Report January 2001 - March 2002 [ PDF | Help ]
Dr. Alan Bernstein and many people across the country continue to work intensely on the implementation of the vision of CIHR. This vision of excellence and world leadership in our human health research programs has given all of us renewed optimism about the future of Canadian contributions to health research knowledge. Our society must surely benefit.
The current research environment in Canada is the most exciting in our history. CIHR is very encouraged about the future! The Federal Budget for 2002 is a eaffirmation of the government's commitment to health and health research, despite difficult economic times. As a result, CIHR's budget is increasing from $485 million to $560 million in 2002-2003. This $75 million increase will enable Canada's health research community to continue with the creation of new knowledge necessary to fight disease, the improvement of the health of Canadians, development of more innovative health system, and support of the growth of our country's vibrant biotechnology sector.
During its inaugural year, ICRH has worked in a joyful way for all health researchers, supporting our studies of molecules, our need for clinical trials, our commitment to better health services and outcomes, and our pursuit of better health for populations. ICRH strives at all times to tie the range of our research existences together. Great attention has been given to the unique opportunity to draw on the power of preparedness, brilliance, and diligence that lies in investigators across the spectrum of cardiovascular, respiratory, blood and brain research in Canada. The importance of the individual investigator has been kept front and center through the open competitions, while we look for novel strategic and developmental avenues by which to harness and build our capacity for research of impact and value. Support for outstanding trainees is paramount and we will seek to identify and nurture them in increasing numbers.
If, within the next five years, we have created a sense of wholeness within the cardiovascular, respiratory and blood research communities across the country and we have fostered the initiation of several worthy and exciting multidisciplinary, nationally relevant projects in health research, we will be heading in the right direction. If we have contributed to a broad and positive public awareness of the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health and of the CIHR as catalysts for discovery and research translation, then we will have succeeded where previous efforts have not. A sense of personal research success must permeate the investigators across the many scientific communities, and the public must own the bridge between discovery and better care.
As inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, I am profoundly moved by the dedication of researchers across Canada. To serve the outstanding circulatory and respiratory research leaders and programs across the country is an amazing privilege, one all members of ICRH and myself take on with the utmost commitment, humility and collegial spirit. Please join the ICRH team and me in this extraordinary and worthy journey.
Bruce M. McManus, MD, FRCPC, PhD
Scientific Director
Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory
Health, CIHR
For further information, please contact:
CIHR - Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Melanie Larson, BA
Administrator
Tel : (604) 806-8934
Fax : (604) 806-8935
mlarson@mrl.ubc.ca
