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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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$12M furthers transition to sustainable chemistry in Ontario
August 3, 2016 by Leslie Burt Sarnia, ON – The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) is providing $12-million to Bioindustrial Innovation Canada to support the Centre for the Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovations, located at the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park. The new…
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Feds call for input on innovation agenda
June 24, 2016 by Lab Product News Ottawa, ON – The federal government has launched a website that invites Canadians to share their ideas for building the country as a global centre for innovation. The website, Canada.ca/Innovation, allows Canadians to share their ideas for positioning Canada as…
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Personalized medicine research gets $600,000 boost
June 14, 2016 by Lab Canada London, ON – 3M Canada has donated $600,000 to support research into precision medicine at London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London. At London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), the $300,000 gift will support the purchase of…
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Federal support for fundamental science under review
June 14, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal minister of science, Kirsty Duncan, has launched an independent review of federal funding for fundamental science. Plans for the review were announced with this year’s federal budget, and the review’s goal is to ensure that…
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New biotechnology hub launched with $3M funding
June 13, 2016 by Lab Canada Sarnia, ON – Ontario’s provincial government is partnering with Bioindustrial Innovation Canada to support a new biotechnology hub in the Sarnia area that is expected to create 400 high-value jobs. Ontario will provide $3 million in funding over four…
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$27M funding awarded to UBC research projects
June 7, 2016 by Lab Canada Victoria, BC – The BC government has awarded the University of British Columbia (UBC) more than $27 million through the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) for 40 research infrastructure projects in areas of healthcare, astrophysics, clean technology and agriculture. …
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$490M funding extends work on Canada’s chemicals management plan
June 7, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Funding of $491.8 million over the next five years will be used to complete the next phase of Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan (CMP), the federal government has announced. The program is the country’s comprehensive and integrated strategy…
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Federal funding for clean energy tech research to double to $775M by 2020
June 7, 2016 by Lab Canada San Francisco, CA – Canada’s federal government is planning to double its funding for clean energy and clean technology research and development, increasing from $387 million in 2014-2015 to $775 million by 2020. Jim Carr, the minister of natural resources,…
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New organism named after late professor Donald Low
May 19, 2016 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – An international group of microbiologists has honoured the memory of University of Toronto Professor Donald Low by using his name for a newly discovered strain of bacteria. The group chose the name Corynbacterium lowii to honour Low,…
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$16M funding supports research into chronic health conditions
May 11, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced funding of $16 million over five years for eight new research teams to study the role of environmental and genetic factors in chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes,…
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada to hire 135 scientists
May 11, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada has announced it will hire 135 research scientists, biologists, oceanographers and technicians through a national recruitment campaign. Funding for the recruitment is part of $197 million funding over five…
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First winners of Governor General’s Innovation Awards are announced
May 11, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Canadian innovators, including several scientists, have been named as the inaugural winners of the Governor General’s Innovation Awards (GGIA). The awards recognize and celebrate outstanding Canadian individuals, teams and organizations whose exceptional and transformative work help shape…
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Killam prizes announced, $1M awarded to Canadian scholars
April 21, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the recipients of the 2016 Killam Program awards. The Canada Council Killam Program was inaugurated in 1967 with a donation by Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam in memory of her…
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Genome BC names new chief executive officer
April 21, 2016 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Genome BC has named Pascal Spothelfer as its new president & chief executive officer beginning Monday, June 6. Dr. Spothelfer joins Genome BC with a great deal of business and commercialization experience. His past work has…
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Researchers hope to change the face of sepsis treatment
April 21, 2016 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The human and financial cost of sepsis is staggering. Of the World Health Organization’s top 10 causes of death, four fulfill the definition of sepsis. Sepsis occurs when infection results in systemic inflammation and is termed ‘severe…
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Quebec researchers receive excellence awards
April 21, 2016 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Québec’s chief scientist, Rémi Quirion, has announced the three winners of the province’s 2016 Research Professionals Excellence Awards. The winners are: Award winner, Fonds Nature et technologies: Denise Tremblay, research professional in Professor Sylvain Moineau’s laboratory, Department…
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Grants boost engineering research into optical tech and lab-grown tissues
April 15, 2016 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Two international collaborative research programs led by University of Toronto Engineering professors have received major grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The funding will help train a new generation of experts in leading edge…
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$1.3M research chair in airway inflammation named at University of Alberta
April 14, 2016 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The University of Alberta’s Harissios Vliagoftis has been appointed GSK-CIHR chair in airway inflammation. The chair – which grows out of an existing partnership between the University of Alberta, GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (GSK), and the Canadian Institutes of…
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Buchi acquires laboratory instrument lines from Grace
April 14, 2016 by Lab Canada Flawil, Switzerland – Büchi Labortechnik AG, a manufacturer of laboratory instruments for R&D, quality control and production, says it has acquired the high performance Reveleris Flash Chromatography Systems, Graceresolv, and Alltech ELSD 3300 product lines from W. R. Grace &…
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$2.1M translational health chair awarded to Alberta researcher
April 12, 2016 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions (AIHS) and the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have awarded the AIHS Translational Health Chair in Cardio-Oncology to Gopinath Sutendra, PhD. Sutendra, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine &…
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$14M funding for research projects at Simon Fraser
April 12, 2016 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Nearly $14 million in provincial funding through the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) has been awarded to researchers Simon Fraser University (SFU) to support five projects in the areas of health and life sciences. The projects…
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New anti-cancer agent to be commercialized in Quebec partnership
April 12, 2016 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Esperas Pharma is partnering with Quebec Clinical Research Organization in Cancer (Q-CROC) in a project to develop a new oral anticancer agent called ESP-01. The agent will be developed by Esperas for the next three and a…
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Sustainable energy development projects get XPS spectrometer with CFI support
April 12, 2016 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) will develop materials critical to sustainable energy development and other fields through $577,000 funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The project received the funding from the…
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Challenges of using big data in chemicals regulations to be probed at upcoming forum
April 5, 2016 by Lab Canada Helsinki, Finland – The use of big data holds great promise for regulators and industry alike in the world’s chemicals sector. In the past decade or so, regulations on chemicals control have generated huge amounts of data for international authorities…
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Dr Janet Rossant wins Henry G Friesen International Prize in Health Research
April 5, 2016 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Internationally renowned developmental and stem cell biologist Dr. Janet Rossant has won the 2016 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. Her research has demonstrated the origin of cells in the early embryo that can give…
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New wine analysis lab coming to Nova Scotia
March 31, 2016 by Lab Canada Wolfville, NS – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has announced funding of $487,960 over two years to establish a new wine analysis lab at Acadia University. Nova Scotia currently has 20 wineries and the industry produces about 1.8 million litres of…
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Agrifood research collaborations get $5M boost
March 31, 2016 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Quebec’s provincial government has allocated $1 million per year for five years for the creation of the McGill Agrifood Innovation Network (M.A.I.N.), to be led by the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and CTAQ (Conseil de la…
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$62M in funding for new research networks that tackle chronic diseases
March 31, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Through the federal government’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) is providing a total of $62.25 million to support five new pan-Canadian research networks in chronic disease over five years. The…
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Federal budget includes fresh focus on science and research
March 24, 2016 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal government’s new budget, unveiled this week, includes measures to help strengthen Canada’s science and research base, particularly by investing in infrastructure at post-secondary institutions and federal laboratories. A new Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund…
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Canada Gairdner Awards honour CRISPR-Cas, HIV/AIDS research leaders
March 23, 2016 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Gairdner Foundation today announced the winners of the 2016 Canada Gairdner Awards, recognizing some of the most significant medical discoveries from around the world. This year the awards centre on two defining themes including the revolutionary…
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