Honourable Murray Coell

 


Minister announces eighth B.C. Leadership Chair
November 8, 2007

From left, Dr. Alan Winter, Genome BC, Dr. Robert Young Leadership Chair recipient, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, Dr. Michael Stevenson, president and vice-chancellor Simon Fraser University, Dr. Martha Salcudean, chair of LEEF board of directors, Dr. Rick Friesen, Executive Director, and Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Merck Frosst Research Laboratories. The B.C. Leadership Chair in Pharmaceutical Genomics in Drug Discovery will support leading-edge pharmaceutical research and the development of new drugs to help treat diseases like osteoporosis, cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. [News release]

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