Dr Martin Taylor has been appointed executive director of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) beginning April 1st for a five-year term. Taylor has held several key research management positions and academic appointments over a long and varied career. After 20 years at McMaster Univ, Taylor was appointed the first VP research at the Univ of Victoria from 1998 to 2007. He then became the founding president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada — a position he held until 2012 (R$, August 31/12). While at CRDCN, Taylor will serve as a adjunct professor at both McMaster and the Univ of Waterloo. Headquartered at McMaster, CRDCN is supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and member universities, providing more than 2,600 researchers and students with access to socio-economic and health information using Statistics Canada data at 31 secure data labs across Canada....