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Scientists to collaborate to find new biofuels
June 14, 2006 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – In the first scientific collaboration of its kind, Canada’s top plant researchers are joining forces with the federal government and industry partners to come up with new ways to use crops to reduce greenhouse gases, provide alternative…
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HPLC players establish marketing and technology alliance
June 13, 2006 by Lab Canada Dublin, CA – Eksigent, a provider of capillary HPLC systems and Phenomenex, a manufacturer of HPLC columns, have announced a strategic marketing and technology collaboration to develop columns optimized for capillary HPLC systems. Under the agreement, Phenomenex will offer a…
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$3.7M to support medical research in Halifax
June 12, 2006 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation says it is providing $3.7 million to support research in the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine in the coming year. The largest contribution in the foundation’s 27-year history, it includes a one-time…
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American oilman donates US$2M to brain research
June 12, 2006 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB A joint fundraising initiative of the University of Calgary and Calgary Health Region has honoured Texas oilman Boone Pickens for donating US$2 million to the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. His gift will establish the Boone Pickens Centre for Neurological…
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MaRS Centre wins intelligent building of the year
June 12, 2006 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) announced MaRS Centre as the winner of its Intelligent Building of the Year at the annual Intelligent Community of the Year Awards in New York City on Friday, June 9. MaRS Centre…
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NSERC opens Prairie office in Winnipeg
June 12, 2006 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) opened a regional office in Winnipeg last week to serve the three Prairie provinces. “This is the second of five regional offices that NSERC is establishing across Canada,” says…
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Neutrino lab garners ORION Discovery Award
June 5, 2006 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), known as Canada’s Eye on the Universe, is being awarded the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network’s (ORION) Discovery Award at Ontario’s Research and Education Summit on June 5 in Toronto. The…
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Nuclear network names exec director
June 5, 2006 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – Engineering physics professor at McMaster, Dr Bill Garland, has been named executive director of the University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (UNENE). Established in 2002, UNENE brought together industry (key funding partners are Ontario Power Generation,…
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NYU star named McGill dean of medicine
June 5, 2006 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Dr Richard Levin has been named vice-principal (health affairs) and dean of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University. Currently the vice-dean for education, Faculty and Academic Affairs at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, Dr…
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Disease investigation unit gets $150,000 in funding
June 5, 2006 by Lab Canada Regina, SK – Saskatchewan’s provincial government has announced funding of $150,000 over three years for the disease investigation unit at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. “This funding helps Canada to meet its international trade and animal health obligations, because…
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Physicists and materials scientist win Brockhouse award as a team
June 5, 2006 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – NSERC’s second annual Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering was recently awarded to a team of three University of British Columbia professors: Dr Walter Hardy, Dr Doug Bonn and Dr Ruixing Liang. The…
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$18M in funding to support genome-related research facilities
May 29, 2006 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Six science and technology platforms across Canada will receive more than $18.6 million in funding from Genome Canada over the next 15 months. The platforms provide the tools and expertise to analyze genomes in various ways and…
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New state-of-art lab to provide newborn screening
May 29, 2006 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – A new screening lab at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) will screen every baby born in Ontario for several rare genetic disorders. The province’s government is providing $7 million annually to expand the number of…
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$6.6M project to boost greenhouse vegetable research
May 29, 2006 by Lab Canada Brooks, AB – Alberta’s government says that the province’s agricultural research and greenhouse sectors will soon be enhanced with the rebuilding of the outdated greenhouse facilities at the provincial Crop Diversification Centre South in Brooks. The new $6.6-million greenhouses will…
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Environmental technology development the focus of $16.6M in funding
May 29, 2006 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The federal government and Alberta say they are jointly providing $16.6 million to support ten innovation and economic development projects under the Western Economic Partnership Agreement. “The innovative projects funded under this partnership agreement accelerate research and…
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Lidar technology pioneer honoured by space agency
May 29, 2006 by Lab Canada Longueuil, QC – Dr Allan Carswell has been presented with the John H Chapman Award of Excellence, in recognition of his contributions to the Canadian Space Program. A senior and internationally recognized leader in the field of laser radar (lidar)…
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Cancer research chair receives $1M in funding
May 26, 2006 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Car maintenance company Mr Lube says it is donating $1 million for cancer research at the Vancouver General Hospital through its VGH UBC Hospital Foundation, which is associated with the University of British Columbia. The funding is…
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Ottawa opens new Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation
May 19, 2006 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – A new Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation has opened at the University of Ottawa. The centre will host leading-edge research in the field of catalysis which is a process that uses chemical reactions to manufacture chemicals,…
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Partnership to promote lung disease research
May 19, 2006 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Understanding the role of the immune system in lung disease is the focus of new research projects funded through a $4.5 million partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institutes of Infection and Immunity and…
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$15M funding advances foods and biomaterials research
May 19, 2006 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – The Advanced Foods and Materials Network (AFMNet) says it is spending up to $12 million in funding over the next three years for 20 different projects ranging from researching microbial agents for food safety, to studying nutrigenomics…
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Research at Toronto hospital supported with $1M gift
May 19, 2006 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A new wave of researchers at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital will benefit from a $1-million gift being provided by TD Bank Financial Group. The gift establishes the TD Health Research Fellowship Program…
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Mining engineering institute created with $7.5M gift
May 15, 2006 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – A major donation from mining company Teck Cominco is funding the creation of the Norman B Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. The company’s former president and CEO, Dr Keevil has been…
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Nanotechnology agreement signed with US nano-college
May 15, 2006 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – Aiming to advance nanotechnology research across the borders, the University of Waterloo says it has reached a collaborative agreement with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany-State University of New York. The…
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Alzheimer’s research gets $3.5M funding boost
May 15, 2006 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Neuroscientists at the University of British Columbia have received $3.5 million in funding over five years for dementia research. The funding is being provided by the Pacific Alzheimer Research Foundation at UBC. The inaugural support, which is…
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New chair to focus on hypertension prevention and control
May 15, 2006 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The Canadian Hypertension Society (CHS), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada’s Research-based Pharmaceutical companies (Rx&D), sanofi-aventis and Blood Pressure Canada (BPC) are jointly providing $900,000 over five years to fund the first Canadian Chair in…
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Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific announce merger
May 10, 2006 by Lab Canada Waltham, MA and Hampton, NH – Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific say they have agreed to merge in a tax-free, stock-for-stock exchange. The new company will be named Thermo Fisher Scientific and is expected to have 2007 revenues of more…
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$2.2M funding kicks off plans for new cancer and cardiac research centre
May 8, 2006 by Lab Canada Thunder Bay, ON – The Ontario government has committed over $2.2 million in support of a planned new Cancer and Cardiac Research Centre in Thunder Bay. The new centre will be built at the former site of the Thunder Bay…
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$1M for research into construction design for urban environments
May 8, 2006 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is providing $1 million in funding to Dr Paul Gauvreau, associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto. The funding is to support development of…
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Project links cell biology research to industrial technology centre
May 8, 2006 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – Newly announced funding for advanced visualization technology is aimed at improving biomedical research in Manitoba by creating three-dimensional virtual images of cell structures. The project, supported by $125,000 in funding from Manitoba’s government, will provide a link…
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Cod genomics research project gets $350,000 more funding
May 8, 2006 by Lab Canada St John’s, NF – The government of Newfoundland and Labrador says it is contributing $350,000 to a Genome Atlantic research project designed to enhance the commercial viability of the cod aquaculture industry in Atlantic Canada. Led by Jane Symonds, of…
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Chief executive appointed for new genome organization
May 8, 2006 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The recently created Genome Alberta has appointed Dr David Bailey as its new president and CEO. Dr Bailey obtained his PhD in genetics and animal breeding at the University of Alberta in 1985 and began working with…
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