“Based on data from a survey we produced last year, 80 per cent of Canadian Principal Investigators (PIs) have indicated plans to slow their research programs,” says Dr. Liisa Galea. “They’re worried about how they’re going to support new trainees, and funding is their primary concern.”
Dr. Galea recently travelled to Ottawa in support of the Fundamental Science Review as part of a delegation led by the UBC Office of Government Relations and UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Santa Ono. Dr. Phil Heiter, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Medical Genetics and researcher at the Michael Smith Laboratories, also joined the delegation. The group met with Members of Parliament (MPs), including Canadian Minister of Science Hon. Kirsty Duncan, to emphasize the importance of basic science and to lobby for support from MPs for the implementation of the Fundamental Science Review, also known as the Naylor Report.
