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Canada Recruits 48 Scholars From Top U.S. Universities in $364M Talent Push

Canada announces recruitment of 64 researchers, including 48 from top U.S. universities, with $364 million in funding.

AI News Feed · 2026-08-28 17:23

The announcement was made in Vancouver by Canada’s industry minister, Melanie Joly, who described the initiative as the world’s “largest talent attraction” project. “While certain countries are cutting research and turning their back on academic freedom, we’re doubling down on science,” Joly told reporters. She said the choices made now would have a lasting impact. “Years from now, we will look back at today’s announcement, and we will be able to seize the lasting impact of our choices.”

Some of the researchers leaving the United States cited the Trump administration’s treatment of science, according to The New York Times, as quoted by Slashdot. Phillip Zamore, chair of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at the University of Massachusetts, said he was recruited to McGill University in Montreal, where he will join the medical faculty. The university has also hired five other researchers. “I used to live in the country that I thought was the most enthusiastic about the prospects for science improving the human condition, of any country in the world,” Zamore said. “And I woke up one day and that wasn’t true anymore.” He added: “If scientists don’t stand up for truth, no one will.”

Kevin Hall, a nutrition scientist who left the U.S. National Institutes of Health last year and accused federal officials of censoring his research on ultraprocessed foods, has been hired at the University of Ottawa.

The Canada-bound brain drain from U.S. institutions began last year as the Trump administration introduced policies targeting foreign students, academic freedom and funding for equity-related programs, according to the report. Seth Guikema, a professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan who specializes in natural hazards modeling, said unpredictable decisions about funding prompted him to look elsewhere. His work focuses on how climate hazards inequitably affect communities, and that work has become harder to fund, he said. “Every country sets its priorities in terms of what is going to get funded, and I think Canada has done a very good job of supporting research in areas that really matter to society,” said Guikema, who will start at Western University in London, Ontario, in January.

The European Union has made a similar push to attract researchers, the report said.