Head of Health Research Funding Body Signals He’Ll Step Down in October
June 28, 2007
TORONTO (CP) – The president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is stepping down.
Dr. Alan Bernstein has told federal Health Minister Tony Clement that he plans to resign as head of the health research funding body at the end of October.
Bernstein was the inaugural head of the agency, set up in 2000.
In a statement issued by the funding agency, Bernstein says he has accomplished what he went to Ottawa to do and feels it is the appropriate time to step aside.
Bernstein is an internationally recognized researcher whose work focuses on embryonic development, the development of red blood cells from stem cell and cancer.
His research base is the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital.