From owner-csm@net.bio.net Mon Mar 22 22:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "John Nash" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: FW: Forwarded mail.... Date: 23 Mar 1999 08:32:00 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 73 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <000801be6feb$13f45550$0858f684@antibody.bio.nrc.ca> Reply-To: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net -----Original Message----- From: Canadian Society of Microbiologists [mailto:csm@istar.ca] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 1:35 PM Dear Colleagues: We have recently been made aware that proposals for Institutes within the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will be reviewed beginning 1 June 1999. R.E.W. Hancock and D.E. Woods met with Dr. Henry Friesen, President of the Medical Research Council and Chair of the Interim Governing Council of the CIHR, on 9 March 1999, to discuss the issues surrounding the formation of a Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Institute. It is clear that if we are to be in a position to present a proposal for review by 1 June 1999, we must begin our planning process very quickly. To initiate this planning process, we would propose that regional meetings be held in the months of April and May to bring together the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Community to discuss the structure and function of a Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Institute. We are seeking your input into this process, and we would hope that you and your colleagues would agree to participate in these regional planning sessions so that we might make the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Institute a reality. Our current thoughts are that there would be six divisions within the Institute. These would be HIV/AIDS, Blood-Borne Diseases, Clinical Trials, Epidemiology and Surveillance, Basic Sciences, Directed Sciences. Indications are that the general structure of these virtual Institutes within CIHR will have an Advisory Board to oversee the activities of the Institute. Each institute will have a Scientific Director with an administrative staff. Division Heads within the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Institute would be Associate Directors of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Institute. We would propose that regional meetings be held in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Quebec and Halifax during the last two weeks in April and the first week of May 1999. We would appreciate hearing from you with some indication of your willingness to participate in the proposed planning process and with your suggestions on how we might best move forward toward the creation of a Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Institute. Sincerely, Robert E.W. Hancock, Ph.D. Professor, Microbiology and Immunology University of British Columbia, Scientific Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases Research Kevin Forward, M.D. FRCP (C) Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Dalhousie University, President, Canadian Infectious Disease Society Donald E. 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