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$4.5M aimed at finding new treatments for rare diseases
September 15, 2016 by Lab Product News Halifax, NS – One in 15 babies born in Canada has what is called an orphan disease. And even though there are more than 7,000 such diseases that affect over 300 million people globally, they are considered rare. “If you…
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Collaborative study aims to identify breast cancer mutations
August 23, 2016 by Lab Product News Toronto, ON – The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) has entered into a new collaborative research study with Thermo Fisher Scientific and Queen’s University to help bring more targeted diagnosis and treatment to breast cancer patients in the future.…
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Collaborative biomedical project launched with $12M in funding
August 3, 2016 by Lab Product News Hamilton, ON – McMaster University is receiving funding of up to $11.96 million from the federal government to help create and operate the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (BEAM). The funding will also be used to upgrade…
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Aluminum research hub kickstarts with funding injection
July 6, 2016 by Leslie Burt Ottawa, ON – A newly formed alliance, the ALTec Industrial Research R&D Group, is consolidating research efforts in the Canadian aluminum sector to develop innovative aluminum products for ground transportation vehicles. The research hub, which already has 23 members and…
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Monarch butterfly study issues call for help from citizens
June 21, 2016 by Lab Product News Montréal, QC – A national-scale study of monarch butterfly breeding habitats is being conducted by the Insectarium, the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV), the Université du Québec à Rimouski, the University of Ottawa and the University of Calgary.…
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Big data collaboration to further OICR’s research capabilities
April 5, 2016 by Lab Canada Portland, OR – The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is joining a pioneering big data management platform called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud along with Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and…
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Mining minerals research the focus of new collaboration
February 24, 2016 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – A Mining Materials Research Cluster is being formed in Saskatchewan, which will conduct research into the corrosion of materials used in the fabrication of mineral processing and mining equipment used in Saskatchewan’s potash industry. The cluster arises…
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$3 million partnership to promote collaboration on pediatric cancer research
November 26, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The Quebec division of the Canadian Cancer Society and the Cole Foundation have formed a partnership to support collaborative research on leukemia and lymphoma in children and young adults. While $1 million has already been raised, the…
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$15M supports industry-academic partnerships in Quebec
November 24, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Quebec’s minister of the economy, innovation and exports, Jacques Daoust, has announced a new collaboration with Mitacs to support the province’s innovation agenda, with $15 million in funding. The ministry is launching several initiatives that will stimulate…
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$7.3M supports genomics project to breed Canadian winter-hardy honeybees
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Honeybees, imported mostly from warm southern climes, are dying in the Canadian cold. About a quarter of the colonies die each winter, forcing beekeepers to bring in more from the United States, increasing the risk of importing…
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Blood test for concussion under collaborative development
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon , SK – Testing of a protein biomarker that could contribute to a fast, effective and portable test for traumatic brain injuries, commonly known as concussions, is set to commence with funding from the Centre for Drug Research and…
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New rapid test for E. coli improves food safety
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada London, ON – Scientists at Robarts Research Institute have developed new technology that has the potential to drastically improve food safety. Dr. Michael Rieder and his team have created a new rapid-test system to detect E. coli 0157 –…
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Alberta, 3M Canada partner in medical product testing research
October 28, 2015 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – A collaborative partnership, funded with $500,000 each from the Alberta’s provincial government and 3M Canada, will support research at the Ward of the 21st Century (W21C) at the University of Calgary. The collaboration is intended to help establish…
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Contaminant removal the focus of new international research partnership
October 20, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – A $40,000 research grant has been awarded to support an international research collaboration aimed at removing contaminants from the environment. The International Flagship Partnership Research Grant (IFPRG), which is being awarded for the first time, is supported…
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New incubator at MaRS will hold up to 50 start-ups
September 15, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Pharmaceutical company Janssen Inc. is collaborating with Ontario’s provincial government, the University of Toronto, and MaRS Discovery District (MaRS) to launch a JLABS incubator. The incubator, called JLABS @ Toronto, is scheduled to open in the spring…
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Cardiovascular disease the focus of new research centre
September 11, 2015 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Developing comprehensive and innovative ways to fight cardiovascular disease will be the focus of the new Centre for Cardiovascular Investigations at the University of Guelph. Officially launched this month, the centre is a collaborative venture by laboratories…
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Open-source molecule helps to further cancer research
September 8, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) at the MaRS Discovery District recently developed a new drug prototype called OICR-9429 and made it freely available to the research community.…
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Collaboration uses stem cell technology to further personalized medicine
September 8, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A collaborative team of clinician-scientists and stem cell biologists has developed a powerful new method to generate 3D bile duct structures from human stem cells in order to study and develop new personalized treatments for bile duct…
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$2.5M funding for research on the artificial pancreas
August 31, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A Canadian research team working on the development of an external artificial pancreas is receiving a grant of just over US$2.5 million from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the U.S.…
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Partnership formed to determine risk and progression of type 2 diabetes
August 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The IRCM (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal) and Nuclea Biotechnologies Inc. have formed a new strategic partnership to validate quantitative mass spectrometry-based assays for insulin, proinsulin, and c-peptide. The goal of the partnership is to develop…
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Supercritical fluid research the focus of international collaboration
August 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Food engineer Feral Temelli, a researcher in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences and the co-inventor of a novel drying technology for biopolymers using supercritical carbon dioxide, is leading a U of…
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$1.5B research fund announces first successful funding recipients
August 12, 2015 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal government has announced the results of the first round of funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, which was launched late last year. A total of $350 million over seven years has been awarded…
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$10M for project researching feed efficiency in dairy industry
August 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – A new $10.3 million project led by Genome Alberta and the Ontario Genomics Institute will help industry growth by using genomics-based approaches to select for dairy cattle with the genetic traits needed for more efficient feed conversion…
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Far-reaching regenerative medicine program launched with $114M grant
July 29, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The University of Toronto has received a $114 million grant – said to be the largest in the institution’s history – to help it become one of the world’s leading centres for the design and manufacture of…
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Bio-industry commercialization the focus on new partnership
July 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) have formed a partnership they say will help Canadian firms to translate research and development from the lab to the marketplace. The partnership’s focus…
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Deal inks first Canadian university collaboration with Tesla Motors
July 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – Tesla Motor’s co-founder and chief technology officer JB Straubel has signed a research agreement with Dalhousie University’s Jeff Dahn, a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery researcher with the Faculty of Science and his group of students, postdoctoral researchers and…
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New institute supports cancer research, collaboration
May 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – A new multidisciplinary organization, the Research Institute of Oncology & Hematology (RIOH), has been formed as a joint project by CancerCare Manitoba (CCMB) and the University of Manitoba (U of M). The RIOH, which will broaden the…
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Collaboration to develop innovative made-in-Canada therapeutics
May 15, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC and Montréal, QC – The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer – Commercialization of Research (IRICoR) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) and the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) are collaborating on three new drug…
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Canadian collaboration brings world’s biggest FT spectrometer to light
April 16, 2015 by Lab Canada Quebec, QC – Université Laval and ABB have embarked on the final phase of a major collaborative project for an astronomical measurement instrument they say will offer unsurpassed precision. Named SITELLE (Wide-field Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer), the instrument integrates several…
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Remediation research gets $2M boost
April 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – University of Saskatchewan soil researcher Steven Siciliano has been awarded a $2 million Industrial Research Chair (IRC) to further develop sustainable ways of cleaning up underground sites contaminated with diesel or gasoline, of which there are more…
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Restructured genome network launched with $15M funding
April 9, 2015 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Genome Canada has created a new Genomics Innovation Network that is being launched with $15.5 million in funding. The network is comprised of ten nodes, each receiving core operational funding from Genome Canada, with matching funds from various…
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