October 4, 2006 Source: :
http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=4266 McMaster researcher awarded
CANADA-HOPE Scholarship by
FHS Advancement
October 04, 2006 An international scientist at McMaster University has been awarded a new
national scholarship worth $174,000. Dr. Denis Xavier, with the Population Health Research Institute, is one of
three inaugural recipients of the CANADA-HOPE Scholarship. The CANADA-HOPE Scholarship program was developed and is supported by the
Canadian Centres for Health Research via its CIHR/Rx&D Collaborative
Research Program, in partnership with sanofi-aventis Canada Inc. Under this program, during the first two years, the international
researchers are mentored in Canada where they are exposed to some of the
best Canadian science, laboratories and training environments. When they
return to India, their research projects will be transferred to their home
institution for the remaining two years of the program. At McMaster, Xavier is working with Dr. Sonia Anand and Dr. Philip Devereaux
on research to determine the importance of well-known and emerging factors
for different types of stroke. Xavier of St. John's Academy for Health Sciences in Bangalore, India, is
conducting a case-control study of 1,600 patients with stroke and 1,600
control subjects without stroke, but who are of the same sex and similar in
age to the patients in seven countries from Argentina, Canada, China and
Denmark to Germany, India and South Africa, and from five different ethnic
groups. Stroke is a major public health problem that contributes significantly to
the global burden of disease. It is the third leading cause of death and the
leading cause of adult disability. Conventional and emerging risk factors
for stroke have only been identified for developed countries in the West. "CANADA-HOPE Scholarships offer an exciting opportunity for outstanding
young researchers from developing countries to develop their research skills
further in Canada," said Dr. Alan Bernstein, president of the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research. "We hope that as a result of receiving these
scholarships, these researchers will establish productive research programs
in their home country. Canada will benefit from their energy and skills and
through the establishment of long-term relationships." The other two scholarship recipients are Dr. Sabu Aliyar of Acadia
University and Dr. Biju George of the University of Western Ontario.
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