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Agricultural research centre appoints senior research fellow
September 8, 2008 by Lab Canada Vineland, ON – Dr Hannah Mathers has been appointed as a senior research fellow at the Vineland Research and Innovations Centre, an independent, not-for-profit corporation established to create a hub for horticultural science and innovation in Ontario. Dr Mathers is…
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Five cents of each federal R&D funding dollar spent on cancer research, says report
August 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (CCRA), in its second and expanded survey of cancer research investment in Canada, estimates that five cents of every $1 spent by the federal government on all extramural science and technology R&D…
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Sunnybrook receives $74.6M research award for image-guided therapeutics
August 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Canada Foundation for Innovation has awarded a $74.6 million award to Sunnybrook Hospital from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Research Hospital Fund. This funding will establish the first-of-its-kind in Canada, Centre for Research in Image-Guided…
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Nanotech centre helps commercialize new products
August 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – A new centre in Edmonton’s Research Park will assist small or large companies that want to bring nanotechnology products to world markets. The Alberta Centre for Advanced Microsystems and nanotechnology Products (ACAMP) is supported by $11.5 million…
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Belleville lab earns quality management accreditation
August 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Belleville, ON – LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services says that earlier this month, it earned its 5-year Ontario Laboratory Accreditation (OLA) for its Belleville testing facilities. OLA is part of the quality management program for laboratory services developed by the Ontario…
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Research collaboration to focus on delivering siRNAs to disease sites
August 26, 2008 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Tekmira Pharmaceuticals says it has entered a research collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb in which Tekmira’s SNALP technology will be used to deliver small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to specific organs and tissues outside of the liver. The relationship…
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Dr Ruth Collins-Nakai to receive the CMA 2008 Medal of Service
August 13, 2008 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Dr Ruth Collins-Nakai, from Edmonton (Alberta), will receive the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) 2008 Medal of Service for her long and distinguished record of service to the medical profession, to medical and research organizations, to Canada’s health…
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Canada’s medical isotope supply the focus of reports and legal action
July 31, 2008 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – This week, two reports have been published in the wake of the extended outage of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)’s National Research Universal (NRU) reactor in Chalk River last November and December. An ad hoc advisory…
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LifeLabs locates provincial testing centre in Niagara Region
July 31, 2008 by Lab Canada Thorold, ON – Laboratory testing services company LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services says it has chosen to locate its Provincial Centre for Fecal Occult Blood Testing (FOBT) at its Niagara Regional Lab in Thorold, ON. FOBT testing is used to identify…
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Pandemic research project gets $1.6M funding
July 29, 2008 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – McMaster University’s Dr Mark Loeb and his research team have received funding of $1.6 million to work isolated Hutterite communities to understand the transmission of pandemic diseases like influenza. The funding is from the Rx&D Health Research…
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Research funding agencies agree on expanding the common CV program
July 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Quebec’s three research funding agencies (Fonds de la recherche en sant du Qubec,…
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Clean technology projects get $57M in new funding
July 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Nineteen clean technology projects from across Canada have been approved to share $57 million in new funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. “The continued high number of applicants and the addition of 19 promising projects to our…
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Canadian Light Source gets new senior executives
July 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Dr Josef Hormes was recently appointed as the next executive director of the Canadian Light Source (CLS), effective August 15, 2008. The appointment came after an 18-month international search for the successor to CLS executive director Bill…
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Agri-food research centre gets $800,000 funding
July 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – The federal government is providing $800,000 in funding to the Canadian Centre for Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM). The funding will support the development of two new laboratories and the purchase of equipment needed for…
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Canada’s first research chair in pediatric epilepsy is appointed
July 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – Dr Michael Esser has been appointed to Dalhousie University’s William Dennis chair in pediatric epilepsy research. Dr Esser, a pediatric neurologist and pharmacologist, will help to achieve a greater understanding of epilepsy and reduce the stigma attached…
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Hydrogen and fuel cell initiatives get $1M in funding
July 28, 2008 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Funding of $1 million is being provided by the federal government to support the development and commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, products and services. More specifically, the funding will help Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Canada…
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$5M kick-off for international wine genomic project
July 21, 2008 by Lab Canada Penticton, BC – Genome BC has launched a new wine genomics research and development program called WineGen and is providing $5 million in funding support. The project involves researchers from Canada, New Zealand, and the US. It will be led…
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Researcher wins international dairy nutrition prize
July 21, 2008 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Dr Spencer Proctor, a member of Dr Peter Jones’s Advanced Foods and Materials Network research team working on conjugated linoleic acid and related dairy fatty acids at the University of Alberta, is the winner of the Biannual…
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Life sciences suppliers announce strategic collaboration
July 18, 2008 by Lab Canada Carlsbad, CA and Winooski, VT – Life sciences company Invitrogen and microplate instrumentation developer BioTek Instruments say they are collaborating to validate the compatibility of Invitrogen’s reagents and technology platforms with BioTek’s microplate detection instruments. Invitrogen’s drug discovery products used…
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$1.7M grant awarded to microbiologist to fight bioterrorism
July 16, 2008 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Dr Donald Woods, at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, $1.7 million for research into vaccines against…
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Cargill breaks ground for specialty canola research and production centre in Aberdeen
July 15, 2008 by Lab Canada Aberdeen, SK – Food and agricultural manufacturer and services company Cargill recently broke ground at the site of a new specialty canola research and production centre, scheduled to open in November.The Cargill Specialty Canola Oils Research and Production Centre will…
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Early research awards program announcements begin in Ontario
July 14, 2008 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Ontario government has begun announcing the recipients of the latest (the 4th) round of funding in its Early Researchers Award program. In total, 66 projects across the province worth $9.24 million will receive funding from the…
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Post-market drug safety and effectiveness the focus of new network
July 14, 2008 by Lab Canada Winnipeg. MB – The federal government says it intends to provide $1 million in funding this year to support the establishment of a Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network. It also says it anticipates providing further funding in the future as…
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Third $800,000 funding installment supports genome research in Western Canada
July 14, 2008 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) has announced $800,000 in funding, provided over four years, to support a series of 12 multi-group networks for the application of genomics to key economic sectors in Western Canada. The funding builds…
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Nations agree on governance of global science gateway
July 14, 2008 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has joined a multilateral alliance to govern a quickly growing online access point to the world’s research information, called WorldWideScience.org. Officials representing 38 countries, including Canada, met on June 12…
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Panalytical and Malvern celebrate US office opening
July 11, 2008 by Lab Canada Westborough, MA – Instrument manufacturers Panalytical and Malvern Instruments’ US teams recently celebrated the opening of their new headquarters in a shared state-of-art facility in Westborough, MA. Gjalt Kuiperes and Brian Dutko, general managers of Panalytical and Malvern’s US companies…
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Research institutes join in project to improve cancer target discovery
July 7, 2008 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have launched a new joint cancer research project. The project, called the Selective Therapies Target Identification Program, will identify specific cancer molecules as…
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France-Quebec-Canada partnership to focus on Alzheimer’s research
July 7, 2008 by Lab Canada Laval, QC – The health research funding organizations of Quebec (the Fonds de la recherche en sant du Qubec, FRSQ), France (the Institut national de la sant et de la recherche mdicale, Inserm) and Canada (the Canadian Institutes of Health…
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Search for next generation of biofuels gets $7.5m funding support
July 7, 2008 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A total of $7.5 million in funding is being provided by the Ontario government to help move two biofuel projects to the global marketplace. In the first project, $5 million of the funding will go towards the…
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Genome Prairie names new president
June 27, 2008 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK and Winnipeg, MB – Dr Arnold Naimark, chair of Genome Prairie’s board of directors, announced today that Dr Wilf Keller has been appointed the new president and CEO of Genome Prairie. “Dr Keller’s research experience, accomplishments and exemplary…
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Scientific mentors receive accolades
June 25, 2008 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has recognized the efforts of four mentors who stimulate the scientific minds of Canada’s youth. Through its Synapse – Youth Connection initiative, the following people receive 2008 Synapse awards: Anteneh…
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