Research Chairs
UCVM has eight research chairs who are responsible for mentoring DVM students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in areas of veterinary medicine, and basic and applied research.
Herman Barkema
NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Infectious Diseases of Dairy Cattle
Jeff Biernaskie
Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society Chair in Skin Regeneration and Wound Healing
Jeroen De Buck
Chair, Bacterial Diseases of Dairy Cows
Li-Fang (Jack) Chu
CIHR Tier II Canada Research Chair in Cellular Reprogramming
Holly Sparks
NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Equine Regenerative Medicine
Patrick Whelan
Frank LeBlanc Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research