Why Canada lags behind peers in cultivating talent in health research

Were the funding targets recommended to the federal government by David Naylor in the Fundamental Science Review actually implemented, then both the elite and the more broadly based project grants could continue without abandoning our health research leaders.

Former University of Toronto president David Naylor, in his final report as chair of the government's advisory council, called for 'major' spending on research-related activities. Photograph courtesy of Caz Zyvatkauskas via Flickr

Opinion

BY JOHN BERGERON AND KATHLEEN DICKSON

January 27, 2020

The deadline for submitting nominations for the Nobel Prize in Medicine is fast approaching. In 2013, David Johnston, the governor general at the time, urged Canadians to

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