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$43M integrated photonics prototyping and fabrication facility opens doors
June 13, 2005 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The NRC Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (NRC-CPFC) recently opened in Ottawa. Photonics has a wide range of applications, primarily in the information technology sector, but is also enabling growth in many other sectors of the economy, revolutionizing…
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Over $1M funds research toward sustainable aquaculture
June 9, 2005 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BD – Over $1 million is about to be invested in leading edge aquaculture R&D. AquaNet, Canada’s research network in aquaculture, has announced funding for five R&D projects designed to improve responsible and sustainable Canadian aquaculture. Leading Canadian researchers…
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Cancer therapeutics firm gets NRC funding to develop lung cancer drug
June 7, 2005 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Biotech company Protox Therapeutics says it has received funding of up to $340,000 from the National Research Council’s industrial research assistance program. The money will support the company’s development of Lung-H1, a therapeutic toxin for the treatment…
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Ceremony launches $68-million Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics
June 6, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A new research facility in the heart of Toronto’s downtown medical and academic research core will soon be home to genetically altered mice which hold the keys that can unlock secrets about some of the world’s most…
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Improved cancer treatments aim of new $8.9M biology research institute
June 6, 2005 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The University of Calgary is establishing a new Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics. The institute will be led by Dr Stuart Kauffman, a specialist in genetic theories, who moved to Alberta to work on research that could…
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Montreal component of Canadian heroin study to be conducted by the CHUM
June 6, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The CHUM (Centre hospitalier de l’Universit de Montral), in collaboration with CRAN (Centre de recherche et d’aide pour narcomanes), says it will soon launch the NAOMI project – a Canadian study that will test whether medically prescribed…
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Second endowment supports research in chronic lung disease
June 3, 2005 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The University of Calgary and GlaxoSmithKline have established a new professorship in inflammatory lung disease. Made possible by a $1 million endowment from GSK, the professorship will dedicate research efforts to advancing the understanding and treatment of…
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$1M endowment supports airway inflammation research
June 2, 2005 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The University of Alberta and GlaxoSmithKline have established a new research chair focussing on airway inflammation. Made possible by a $1-million endowment from GSK, the GSK Chair in Airway Inflammation will advance the understanding and treatment of…
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Health Canada names new chair for Science Advisory Board
June 2, 2005 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Dr Arnold Naimark has been named chair of Health Canada’s Science Advisory Board, for a three-year term. “Dr Naimark brings tremendous experience in the fields of medical science, administration and intellectual leadership. His knowledge and breadth of…
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Beckman Coulter to acquire Agencourt Bioscience
June 2, 2005 by Lab Canada Fullerton, CA – Beckman Coulter says it is planning to acquire Agencourt Bioscience of Beverly, MA. Agencourt provides genomic services and develops nucleic acid purification products in the biomedical research market. Terms of the agreement include a payment at closing…
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$1.8B for research support in Ontario
May 30, 2005 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Ontario researchers and graduates will receive a substantial increase in government support, the province’s premier, Dalton McGuinty, has announced. The government is creating the Ontario Research Fund (ORF), which will support leading-edge projects at Ontario institutions. Speaking…
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Partnership agreement for studying nanotechnology
May 30, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – NanoQubec, CEA-Leti (Minatec) and the UAlbany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering have signed a tripartite agreement linking the resources of each institution and their respective regions. The agreement is aimed at increasing the collaboration between the…
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Cross-border team looks at stem cells to repair MS damage; $2.25M helps work continue
May 30, 2005 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Three North American research centres are examining the body’s own stem cells in hopes that they may hold the key to repairing damage caused by multiple sclerosis. If successful, people with MS may be able to regain…
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$1.1M annually to improve monitoring of Lake Winnipeg’s water quality
May 30, 2005 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – The future of the Lake Winnipeg watershed is the subject of a $1.1 million funding announcement by the federal government. The funds will be used to enhance the scope of water-quality monitoring efforts on the Red River…
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Carbon dioxide storage and monitoring project gets $6.75M extra funding
May 30, 2005 by Lab Canada Regina, SK – The federal government is providing $6.75 of additional funding into research led by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC). The funding will support the final phase of a project, located at EnCana’s enhanced oil recovery site in…
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Mini lab allows for the automated study of astronaut bone loss in space
May 25, 2005 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Millenium Biologix says it has been awarded a Canadian Space Agency contract to develop an automated osteoporosis mini lab for space missions. This is the first in a series of contracts expected over the course of 2005…
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Automated bacteriology ID system to speed lab’s clinical work
May 24, 2005 by Lab Canada Durham, NC – Medical diagnostics company bioMerieux says it has secured a five-year contract with laboratory testing services company MDS Diagnostic Services. Under the terms of this arrangement, bioMerieux will supply its automated bacteriology identification and susceptibility testing (ID/AST) system…
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$2.3M awards programs support research into gender and health
May 24, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Ontario Women’s Health Council (OWHC) has funded three new awards programs in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Institute of Gender and Health (IGH). These new awards programs build on the OWHC’s…
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Magellan Biosciences acquires TekCel
May 20, 2005 by Lab Canada Chelmsford, MA – Magellan Biosciences, a provider of advanced instruments, automated systems, point-of-care products, and consumables for biomedical research and clinical diagnostics, says it has acquired Hopkinton, MA-based TekCel. A developer of sample-management and assay-automation systems for biomedical research, TekCel…
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Procyon Biopharma receives award of excellence for emerging cancer therapies
May 20, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Procyon Biopharma says it has received the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Excellence in Technology in the field of emerging cancer therapies and that acknowledges Procyon’s overall scientific and technological contributions towards the advancement of cancer…
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HPCVL advances work in stem-cell research and physics with technological acquisition
May 20, 2005 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Sun Microsystems is helping the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL.org) to more pursue discovery and research projects with the selection of Sun technologies within its high-performance computing centre. The expansion is expected to quadruple current computing…
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SemBioSys receives company of year award from BIOTECanada
May 18, 2005 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – SemBioSys Genetics, a biotechnology company developing a broad pipeline of protein-based pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical products, today announced that it has received the company of the year award at the BIOTECanada Conference 2005 and annual general meeting in…
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$1M provided to study milk’s potential anti-inflammatory properties
May 17, 2005 by Lab Canada Quebec City, QC – The federal government and biotech company Advitech are together providing over $1 million to support a new collaborative research and development program on potential anti-inflammatory health benefits in cow’s milk. The program, which will study growth…
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Alcan acquires pharmaceutical glass converter
May 16, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Alcan says it has reached an agreement to purchase Interglass, a privately owned company located in Toronto, specialized in the converting of glass tubing. Alcan says the acquisition will enhance its North American market position in pharmaceutical…
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$1.2 million partnership with Quebec biotech centre renewed
May 16, 2005 by Lab Canada Laval, QC The federal government has made a non-repayable contribution of $1.2 million to the Centre qubcois d’innovation en biotechnologie (CQIB), which is celebrating its tenth anniversary. This funding will serve to cover a portion of the CQIB’s operating costs…
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Funding boosts Nova Scotia innovation trust
May 16, 2005 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – A $5-million investment by Nova Scotia’s provincial government is being added to the province’s research and innovative trust. “R&D investments are important to our scientists, our researchers, our economy, and ultimately our residents,” says Ernest Fage, the…
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New fund encourages research and development in PEI
May 16, 2005 by Lab Canada Charlottetown, PEI – A fund worth $500,000 has been created by PEI’s provincial government to encourage research and development in the island. The series of programs is designed to build capacity in research and development innovation by supporting the transformation…
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Collaborative water-quality research to clean up lake to 1970s levels
May 16, 2005 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – Manitoba Water Stewardship Minister Steve Ashton has announced $150,000 for water quality research on Lake Winnipeg in collaboration with partners in the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium. The funds will support multi-disciplinary studies on the lake conducted off…
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Agency overseeing in vitro research to be located in Vancouver
May 9, 2005 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Federal health minister Ujjal Dosanjh has announced that Vancouver will be the location of the future head office of the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada. The agency will be established in January 2006 under the Assisted…
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$7M to support study of gender in circulatory and respiratory disease
May 9, 2005 by Lab Canada Ottawa,ON – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Canadian Lung Association, are jointly providing over $7 million to support four health research projects directed at studying the role of gender…
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$10M strategic alliance extends research into oilseed diversification
May 9, 2005 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – The National Research Council Plant Biotechnology Institute (NRC-PBI) and Dow AgroSciences Canada have signed a five-year strategic alliance. The agreement, with contributions by the parties valued at $10 million over five years, builds on a previous five-year…
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