NSERC Canada Research Chairs
Feature Article
Engineering's Newest Research Chair- Dr. Robert Burrell
Dr. Robert Burrell was named a Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Biomaterials in 2003. In the past fifteen years, Burrell has been involved in the design of more than fifteen medical processes and products and has been named as the inventor on more than thirty U.S. patents. In 1995, he made an important breakthrough in dressing design using nanocrystalline silver technology. His invention, Acticoat, is a silver-based wound dressing that has antimicrobial properties and speeds healing. The dressing is often used in burn units and is now sold around the world.
Original: Engineering News
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NSERC Canada Research Chairs at the University of Alberta include:
Tier 1
Simaan M. AbouRizk
Norman C. Beaulieu
Michael J. Brett
Robert Burrell
Vladimir Chernousov
Philip Currie
Clayton Deutsch
Roger A. Dixon
George R. Foxcroft
Mark R. Freeman
Murray Gray
Wolfgang Jäeger
Steven M. Kuznicki
Mark Lewis
Liang Li
Jacob Masliyah
Witold Pedrycz
S. George Pemberton
Jonathan Schaeffer
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
John C. Vederas
Roderick Wasylishen
Randall Weselake
Zhenghe Xu
Tier 2
Alidad Amirfazli
Subir Bhattacharjee
Massimo Boninsegni
Jillian Buriak
Robert Campbell
Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi
Janet Elliot
Michael Gänzle
Uwe Hacke
Fangliang He
David S. Hik
Kurt O. Konhauser
Sally P. Leys
Jingli Luo
Ian R. Mann
Enrico Scarpella
Douglas R. Schmitt
Dale E. Schuurmans
Thomas Stachel
Tian Tang
Douglas Wong-Wylie