Research@McMaster: Research Centres A-C

Research Centres
& Institutes: A-C

Research Centres A-C

Research Centres D-M

Research Centres N-Z

Research Facilities A-F

Research Facilities G-I

Research Facilities J-M

Research Facilities N-R

Research Facilities S-Z

Comprehensive List
of Centres & Facilities

National Networks of
Centres of Excellence

Ontario Centres
of Excellence



Antimicrobial Research Centre		Microbial diseases, in particular the increasingly prevalent antibiotic-resistant pathogens, constitute major threats to human health. The McMaster University Antimicrobial Research Centre aims to attack these diseases by bringing together a broad spectrum of research interests.

Bertrand Russell Research Centre		Since Russell's papers came to McMaster in the late 1960s, scores of books and hundreds of articles have been published using material from the Russell Archives. The Bertrand Russell Research Centre takes responsibility for the publication of Russell material and for fostering Russell research.

Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research		The Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research is an interdisciplinary research organization with the mandate to develop, support and co-ordinate all materials research-related activities at McMaster. The facilities of the Institute and its pool of expertise are also available to industry and organizations that require assistance with materials research and development or material analysis.

Canadian Cochrane Centre		The mission of The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre is to foster evidence-based health care decision making by identifying and supporting individuals in Canada who wish to become involved with the Cochrane Collaboration, and by promoting the awareness, appreciation, distribution and use of Cochrane systematic reviews of health care interventions.

CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research		Research programmes at CanChild concentrate on children and youth with disabilities and their families within the context of the communities in which they live. The focus of research conducted by CanChild is broad, and includes children and youth with physical, developmental, and/or communicative needs who require rehabilitation services, as well as their families.

Centre for Advanced Polymer Processing & Design		CAPPA-D is involved in research, education and technology transfer in the area of polymer processing and rheology. Projects involve formulation, conversion and characterization of plastics, mathematical modeling of single and twin screw extrusion, coextrusion, thermoforming, rotational molding, film blowing, reactive extrusion, mixing and coating.

Centre for Emerging Device Technologies		The Centre for Emerging Device Technologies (CEDT) is an organization that facilitates study of the optical, electrical, mechanical, and biological properties of semiconductors and related materials and promotes the development of technology based on these materials.The Centre is made up of member faculty and graduate students from the Departments of Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Six full-time staff operate and maintain equipment for material growth, analysis, and processing, located in four laboratory facilities. We develop lasers, MEMS, detectors, waveguide devices, and much more. Industrial collaborations take place frequently and new initiatives are always welcome.

Centre for the Effective Design of Structures		McMaster University has received a $1 million donation for an endowed chair in masonry design. The research is to help make buildings better and safer. The Martini, Mascarin and George Chair in Masonry Design will help ensure that current and future undergraduate and graduate engineering students are taught cutting-edge masonry design. It will also enable researchers to build on the current body of knowledge for building codes and standards.

Centre for Evaluation of Medicines		The Centre for Evaluation of Medicines has been created to meet an Ontario need for a focus of expertise in the diverse research areas relevant to improved drug therapy. The Centre rests on a foundation of established excellence in basic and clinical pharmacology and toxicology. Our core members bring additional skills in pharmaco-epidemiology and pharmaco-economics. This expertise, coupled to McMaster University's strengths in evaluative, probabilistic, and information sciences appropriate to drug therapy, is expected to have broad benefit.

Centre for Functional Genomics		The mission of the Centre for Functional Genomics is to develop new technologies and to exploit recent advances in gene expression profiling, bioinformatics and proteomics to discover gene function. This knowledge will be integrated into the investigation of genetic pathways that regulate organismal development and physiology.

Centre for Gene Therapeutics		The mission of the Centre for Gene Therapeutics is to investigate, create and implement approaches utilizing the delivery of genes as therapeutic agents in the treatment of human and animal disease. The Centre is focused on developing novel cures for cancer, inflammatory diseases and infectious diseases using state-of-the-art gene transfer technology coupled with the most recent information derived from the application of genomics.

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis		The Centre for Health Economics and policy Analysis is an interdisciplinary research centre that is committed to producing high-quality, original, socially relevant research in health economics and health policy analysis, and to disseminating research evidence to decision makers in the health sector. Research spans a broad range of topics including the organization, funding, and delivery of health care, the evaluation of health care programs and technologies, the measurement of health at the individual and population level, the determinants of population health, and the processes of health policy making.

Centre for Minimal Access Surgery		The Centre for Minimal Access Surgery provides state of the art facilities, education and training in minimally invasive procedures for surgeons and nurses. The facility promotes and supports world-class research into outcome and development of new minimally invasive procedures. CMAS has developed a unique partnership with industry to further the development and application of minimally invasive surgical technique.

Centre for Peace Studies		Peace Studies is a discipline that seeks to understand war and peace, violence and non-violence, conflict and conflict transformation, and that looks for ways to promote human well-being through this understanding. As well as offering academic courses, the Centre for Peace Studies annually sponsors the independently endowed Bertrand Russell Peace Lectures and Mahatma Gandhi Lectures on Non-violence.

Centre for Spatial Analysis		The Centre for Spatial Analysis focuses on the application of spatial analysis methods to urban transportation problems and to understanding the relationship between environmental pollution and health.