Career Research Award
Established in 2009, the Career Research Award is a biennial award that recognizes the longstanding career of an outstanding and accomplished researcher working on an aspect of paediatric research in Canada.
The award is presented during the CPS Annual Conference. The recipient is awarded a commemorative plaque and a $1,000 prize and complimentary CPS membership for 1 year.
Awarded every other year, the next award will be presented in 2026.
Current recipient(s): Dr. Stuart Turvey
Dr. Stuart Turvey is being recognized with the Career Research Award both for his research and for mentoring the next generation of child health clinician-scientists. He is a clinical immunologist and professor of paediatrics at the University of British Columbia. He received his medical degree from Australia, completed doctoral studies at Oxford, and undertook clinical and post-doctoral research training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He took up his faculty position at B.C. Children’s Hospital and UBC in 2004.
Dr. Turvey’s research has changed the practice of clinical immunology and the care of paediatric patients with inborn errors of immunity both in Canada and internationally. His work focuses on childhood immune deficiency diseases and disorders of immune dysfunction, including asthma, allergies, and autoimmunity. In 2023, he led a large international consortium which discovered that gain of function genetic changes in the gene STAT6 cause severe allergic disease and identified effective treatments for severely affected patients, many of whom are children. Dr. Turvey has also led impactful discoveries of other new inborn errors of immunity. His work is translational, interdisciplinary, and focused on developing precision health approaches to infectious and inflammatory diseases of childhood.
Dr. Turvey has published extensively, received numerous research awards, and presented his work both at home and around the world.
Nominations
Nominees should be actively engaged in research and be a MD and/or a PhD. The recipient should be a Canadian resident, hold an appointment at a Canadian university, hospital or research institute and have conducted the majority of their career research in Canada.
The candidates must:
- Have national and international recognition evidenced by the number of publications, the quality of journals in which work is published, participation in national and international scientific symposia/meetings, academic visits, involvement in grant review panels and other related activities.
- Have had significant influence on others to develop research careers.
- Have created novel collaborative relationships nationally and/or internationally that enhance the body of research knowledge.
The Awards Committee will judge candidates based on:
- Meeting the eligibility requirements above.
- The length of their career and the impacts of their research as listed above.
- The influence of their research on others.
- The quality of the information and the details in the nomination letters. The letters are a critical component of the evaluation process and should clearly demonstrate how the candidate meets the criteria.
Submissions
Submissions must include:
- Letters of support from the nominator and seconder, both of which are CPS members, describing how the nominee meets the above criteria. One of these letters must be from outside the candidate’s institution. Please note that the committee relies heavily on the nomination letter to make their decision.
- Updated, condensed curriculum vitae for the candidate. Maximum 20 pages.
Submit your nominations using the Submit Nomination button.
Sponsored by the Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.
Past recipients
Dr. Patricia Parkin
Dr. David Johnson
Dr. Grant Mitchell
Dr. Alex MacKenzie
Dr. Francine Ducharme
Drs. Peter and Carol Camfield
Dr. Jan Gorter
Last updated: Nov 18, 2025