Dr. Morgan Craig is Canada Research Chair in Computational Immunology, a Researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Université de Montréal. In her research, she studies how the immune system responds to threats and how differences between individuals affect these responses. For this, she develops predictive, mechanistic mathematical and computational models calibrated to and validated against experimental and clinical data to study the progression and treatment of cancer and viral infectious diseases through the lens of immunity. In her work and through highly multidisciplinary research conducted in close collaboration with experimentalists and clinicians, Dr. Craig uses in silico clinical trials and virtual patient cohorts to concretely improve therapeutic regimens and patient outcomes.

Michel Delfour is a Guggenheim, Killam, and SIAM Fellow and was awarded the Urgel-Archambault Prize for Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering from ACFAS. His research interests are: optimization and design of shapes and geometries, analysis and control of ordinary, delay, and partial differential systems, control and stabilization of large space structures, numerical methods in differential equations and optimization. His recent interests include the frequency assignment methods to land mobiles, the modelling and control of thin and asymptotic shells, the design of endoprotheses in interventional cardiology, and the design of the dynamics of drug release. He is the author of 13 books and more than 175 papers.

He has been president of the Canadian Mathematical Society and has served on numerous Canadian granting and advisory committees, as well as on panels,  boards, and executive committees of international organizations. He has been a professional engineer (Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec) since 1966 and has been involved in numerous consulting activities for Canadian organizations.

I am a mathematical and computational biologist with a broad interest in evolutionary biology. I have worked on a diverse array of topics, including social evolution, host-pathogen (co)-evolution, and evolutionary conflict. Recently, my research focus has been on the evolution of infectious diseases. Pathogens adapt rapidly to drugs and vaccines and a better understanding of the evolutionary epidemiology of infectious diseases raises many theoretical challenges and has important public health applications.