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Rebecca Barnes joined N2 as its new Executive Director beginning February 2022. Rebecca

began her career as a bench cancer researcher and over the past 15 years has worked in

different leadership roles, all with the common thread of enhancing health research capacity

through sustainable systems and processes and robust stakeholder engagement. Prior to

joining N2 she was responsible for helping to lead the Canadian Tissue Repository Network, and

overseeing research engagement for the Vancouver Island Health Authority by serving as lead

of the CIHR Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) initiative within the Vancouver Island

region. Most recently she worked as Director of the University of Victoria’s Office of the Vice-

President Research and Innovation. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Biology) and a Master’s

degree (Environmental Toxicology/Carcinogenesis).

Sarah Lampson
Sarah was appointed Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Research Administrators in 2013 after more than a decade as a research administrator in various progressive roles at a leading university, a funding agency,one of the largest academic hospitals in Canada and at the largest health research organization in North America. Sarah co-authored the reference book The A-Z Guide to Research Contract Review and Steer Your Career: A Research Administrator's Manual for Mapping Success which are in use at more than 500 institutions globally. Sarah received national and international recognition for her contributions to research administration and is a faculty member in the Research Administration Certificate at Mohawk College.