Bill Sheel, Professor and head of the Health and Integrative Physiology Laboratory, was among researchers at UBC who met with Minister of National Defence, Harjit Sajjan, on behalf of the Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan, to announce more than $42 million in support of fundamental research at the University of British Columbia. The funding is provided through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) 2017 competition for the Discovery Grants program, scholarships and fellowships.