Brian Dixon Awarded Canada Research Chair

Monday, April 2, 2012
Dr. Brian Dixon, Professor, Department of Biology, was recently awarded a Canada Research Chair in Fish and Environmental Immunology. This CRC award will provide $1.4 M in funding to Dr. Dixon over seven years. 
Dr. Dixon's research area includes understanding fish immunology and applying it to environmental problems such as climate change. The results of his research will not only help create vaccines and drugs for fisheries, but it will help us better understand ecosystems including the Great Lakes, and the evolution and function of similar immune-system molecules in mammals.