PHILIP HICKS

Philip Hicks is President of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. He served Canada abroad in a diplomatic capacity as S&T Counselor in the Tokyo Embassy in Japan. Prior to that he was Group Leader at NRC’s Ottawa Institute for Biological Sciences, an R&D/management position he accepted following a productive academic career at universities in North Carolina (UNC-Greensboro) and Alberta (AHFMR Scholar, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine). Dr. Hicks has published over 100 scientific papers in areas of brain signaling, neural plasticity, amino acid receptor mechanisms and sensory pathways of the brain, edited books on health sciences, been frequently invited to speak publicly about science, sat on numerous journal editorial boards, won research excellence awards from Canada, USA, Japan and Germany, and been funded by many international granting agencies and industrial contracts.