Martin Gleave, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences and Director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre
Martin Gleave, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences and Director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre, is the winner of the 2013 Aubrey J. Tingle Prize from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR).
Created in honour of MSFHR’s founding president and CEO, this award is given to a British Columbia researcher whose work in health research is internationally recognized and has significant impact on advancing clinical or health services and policy research.
Dr. Gleave is the BC Leadership Chair in Prostate Cancer Research and the CEO of PC-TRiADD (Prostate Centre’s Translational Research Initiative for Accelerated Discovery and Development), a national centre of excellence in commercialization and research that received early stage funding as a MSFHR research unit in 2004 and has since attracted $90 million in national and international funding, including $40 million from Industry Canada and a $15-million grant from the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research.
In recognition of his contributions to cancer research and control, Dr. Gleave has received numerous awards including the 2013 Eugene Fuller Triennial Prostate Award from the American Urological Association.
For more information, visit the MSFHR website.