弗里达·米勒博士学校是在埃弗格林社区建设的新小学的名称。卡尔加里教育委员会的董事会已经批准了预计于2020年9月开放的这所学校的名称。

米勒博士是多伦多儿童医院的细胞与分子发育神经生物学家，也是多伦多大学的教授，同时还是加拿大皇家学会和美国科学促进协会的会士。

在她的职业生涯中，她做出了具有开创性意义的科学发现。她在皮肤的第二层发现了干细胞，为使用皮肤作为人类干细胞的重要来源提供了概念基础。她发现的这些干细胞对于修复受伤的皮肤至关重要。

同时，米勒博士还发现了决定神经细胞生存与死亡的新机制，这一发现引发了新的研究领域，并对我们对神经退行性疾病的理解产生了重大影响。

米勒博士在理解干细胞如何在正常发育中构建大脑以及这在如自闭症等神经发育障碍中的异常方面做出了重要贡献。这导致她最近发现了常用的糖尿病药物二甲双胍可以用于促进受伤的大脑修复。

这些卓越的发现在科学界广受认可，并已促成临床试验，用于“唤醒”我们自身的干细胞来修复受伤的大脑和皮肤。

最后，有25名在米勒博士实验室接受培训的研究生和博士后研究员现在在世界各地的大学担任教职。

米勒博士是卡尔加里公立学校系统的自豪校友。她在蒙哥马利和邦纳斯的学校就读过小学和高中，并在她的初中年级在伊丽莎白女王中学的天才项目中受益。她在卡尔加里大学获得了医学科学博士学位。她与卡尔加里保持着紧密联系，大部分家人仍然居住在这里。她在坎莫尔定期居住。

学校命名委员会在收集和评估利益相关者对可能名称的意见之后，向董事会建议了这个名称。学校命名委员会由卡尔加里教育委员会的委员、家长和/或社区代表以及卡尔加里教育委员会行政人员组成。

弗里达·米勒博士学校在开放时将为K至四年级的学生提供服务。

Dr. Freda Miller School is the name of the new elementary school being built in the community of Evergreen. The Board of Trustees of the Calgary Board of Education approved the name for this school, expected to open in September 2020.

Dr. Miller is a cell and molecular developmental neurobiologist at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and professor at the University of Toronto, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

She has made seminal scientific discoveries over the course of her career. Her discovery of stem cells in the second layer of the skin has provided the conceptual basis for using skin as a major source for genesis of human stem cells. The stem cells she discovered are critical for the repair of injured skin.

At the same time, Dr. Miller discovered new mechanisms determining whether nerve cells live or die, findings that initiated new fields of research and that have major implications for our understanding of neurodegenerative disorders.

Dr. Miller has made significant contributions to understanding how stem cells build the brain during normal development and how this goes awry in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. This led to her recent discovery that the commonly used diabetes drug metformin can be used to promote repair of the injured brain.

These outstanding discoveries have been widely recognized within the scientific community, and have led to clinical trials for therapies that “wake up” our own stem cells to repair the injured brain and skin.

Finally, 25 of the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who trained in Dr. Miller’s laboratory now hold faculty positions at universities around the world.

Dr. Miller is a proud alumna of the Calgary public school system. She attended schools in Montgomery and Bowness for her primary and high school education and benefitted from the gifted program at Queen Elizabeth High School in her junior high years. She obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Calgary. She maintains strong ties to Calgary, which is still home to most of her family. She lives part time in Canmore.

The school naming committee recommended this name to the Board of Trustees after gathering and evaluating stakeholder input on possible names. The school naming committee is comprised of CBE Trustees, parent and/or community representatives and members of CBE administration.

Dr. Freda Miller School will serve students in Grades K-4 when it opens. ​