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Oncolytics Biotech appoints chief scientific officer
December 9, 2004 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Oncolytics Biotech has appointed Dr Matt Coffey as chief scientific officer. Dr Coffey was formerly the company’s vice president of product development. Oncolytics is developing a formulation of the human reovirus as a potential cancer therapeutic. It…
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NRC gives $242,500 grant toward commercialization of bioactive products
December 8, 2004 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – International Bio Recovery has signed a contribution agreement with the NRC’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) whereby NRC/IRAP will support IBR in its research and development program with grant funding and access to sophisticated laboratory facilities and…
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Canadian biomanufacturing strategy launched to take advantage of $15 billion biopharmaceutical pipeline
December 8, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – A $450-million investment is required over the next seven years if Canada is to retain its leading position in the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical industry and capitalize on the $15 billion the country has already invested in the…
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LAB International to initiate phase II trial for GHRH
December 8, 2004 by Lab Canada Laval, AC – Drug development company LAB International says that, after completion of a successful dose-response trial, it has selected the first clinical indication for which it intends to evaluate the efficacy of its Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH) analogue.…
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Queen’s biologist wins top Canadian science prize
December 6, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – One of the world’s foremost ecologists is the winner of this year’s Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Dr John P Smol, a Canada Research Chair at Queen’s University and pioneer in the reconstruction…
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Discovery and innovation saluted by NSERC at its annual awards
December 6, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Some of Canada’s most prestigious science prizes are being awarded by NSERC, as part of its support for discovery and innovation in Canada. The organization supports both basic university research through research grants, and project research through…
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Pre-clinical cancer study receives NRC funding
December 6, 2004 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – CV Technologies says it is launching a pre-clinical study to investigate the effects of CVT-E002 in treating immune deficiency related cancers as part of its ongoing strategy to develop natural therapeuticals for disease prevention and health maintenance.…
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Stem cell mobilizer holds hope for potential use in allogeneic transplant for cancer patients
December 6, 2004 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – AnorMED has announced preliminary results on AMD3100, its lead drug candidate for stem cell transplantation, which support its potential use as a single agent to mobilize stem cells from healthy donors for allogeneic stem cell transplantation in…
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$1.3M grant supports research into new wood products
December 6, 2004 by Lab Canada Qubec City, QC – The federal government is providing $1.3 million support for a new industrial research chair in wood products at Universit Laval. The research team will investigate new opportunities for value-added products in the structural and appearance markets.…
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High-performance computer part of $1M grant to cancer research
December 6, 2004 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – IBM has awarded a grant of a high-performance computer to researchers at the Ontario Cancer Institute to help them understand how various proteins interact with each other – a crucial step in understanding cancer progression, potentially impacting…
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Largest university research centre on polymers and polymer matrix composites in Canada opens its doors
November 29, 2004 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Today marks the inauguration by Montral’s Ecole Polytechnique of the largest university research centre in Canada on polymers and polymer matrix composites for industrial applications: the Centre de recherche en plasturgie et composites (CREPEC). The centre came…
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Neurosciences institute selects brain star for the year
November 29, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Queen’s University graduate, Dr Jeffrey Coull, has won the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction’s Brain Star of the Year Award. Awarded each year to a promising young researcher, the award recognizes the excellence of research…
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Neuroscience Canada awards $4.5 million to three Canadian brain repair research teams
November 26, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Three grants of $1.5 million each have been awarded for the study of brain repair. Each team will receive an additional $60,000 over three years for networking. Building on the knowledge that the brain has an innate…
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Health research awards salute Canadian researchers
November 25, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Four health science researchers and three organizations in the field have received prestigious awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. These awards are synonymous with exceptional, internationally recognized, cutting-edge research,” says Ujjal Dosanjh, federal minister of…
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One-of-a-kind instrument destined for nanotechnology facility
November 23, 2004 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) of the National Research Council (NRC) says it will soon be home to a one-of-a-kind transmission electron microscope (TEM). The institute says it recently contracted for a Hitachi HF 3300 TEM…
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Research hospitals receive up to $61M for equipment and facilities
November 22, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Foundation for Innovation has approved up to $61 million to support 12 projects at eight institutions under the new Research Hospital Fund (RHF). The announcement was made today by Dr Eliot Phillipson, president and CEO…
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Biopharma duo complete merger
November 22, 2004 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – QLT and Atrix Laboratories say they have completed a merger transaction, creating a single biopharmaceutical company focused on ophthalmology, oncology, dermatology and urology. “We are excited to begin our new life as one organization and to continue…
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Advisory board appointment for Forbes Medi-Tech
November 22, 2004 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Biopharmaceutical company Forbes Medi-Tech has appointed Dr Steven Nissen, medical director of the Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center, as chairman of its medical and scientific advisory board. Dr Nissen was one of the pioneers in the development…
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Report says medical education and research compromised by poor protections for clinical faculty
November 18, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The independence and integrity of medical education and research in Canada is at risk because too many clinical faculty do not enjoy the same employment rights and academic freedom as their non- clinical colleagues, concludes a report…
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Finalists for Canada’s top science prize announced (November 18, 2004)
November 18, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Tom Brzustowski, president of Science and Engineering Research Canada (NSERC), has named the finalists for the 2004 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. The annual prize, which was renamed in 1999 to honour Canadian…
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NSERC announces $35,000 in prizes for Canada’s top science promoters
November 17, 2004 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – NSERC president Tom Brzustowski has named three individuals and two groups as winners of the 2004 Michael Smith Awards national prizes for outstanding achievement in the promotion of science in Canada. Named after the late Canadian biochemist…
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Companies working to optimize microarray technology for splice variant analysis
November 17, 2004 by Lab Canada Palo Alto, CA and Paris, France – Instrument manufacturer Agilent Technologies and drug discovery company ExonHit Therapeutics have formed a research collaboration to combine Agilent’s microarray platform and ExonHit’s alternative RNA splicing technologies and expertise. The collaboration will explore the…
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World grid project hopes to tap public donations of idle computer time
November 16, 2004 by Lab Canada Armonk, NY – IBM, along with representatives of the world’s leading science, education and philanthropic organizations, today launched World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the…
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$1.5M funding for sylvaculture lab facility
November 16, 2004 by Lab Canada Val d’Or, QC – The federal government says it is providing $1,550,181 to support the applied research and technology transfer activities of the Universite du Quebec en Abitibi-Temiscamingue’s Laboratoire de recherche en ligniculture et sylviculture intensive. The three-year project consists…
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New centre could save millions in health care dollars
November 16, 2004 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – A new $2.6 million centre at the University of Alberta could potentially save the country’s health care system millions of dollars through a simple, cost effective diagnostic test. The Magnetic Resonance Diagnostic Centre (MRDC), the only one…
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$194M creates new Canada research chairs
November 15, 2004 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The federal government has awarded $194 million for 194 new Canada research chairs at universities across the country. “From health care, to the environment, to building stronger communities, the work of these Canada Research Chairs will have…
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$2M hydrogen testing facility to target fuel cell innovation
November 11, 2004 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The Honourable Stephen Owen, Minister for Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State (Sport), on behalf of the Honourable David L. Emerson, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the National Research Council (NRC), today opened the…
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Safety of blood stem cell transplantation the focus of collaboration
November 10, 2004 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Biopharmaceutical company Celmed BioSciences and medical technology and healthcare company Gambro BCT have formed a formal collaborative agreement aimed at developing a semi-automated, closed system to prevent graft versus-host disease (GvHD). Financial terms were not disclosed. Gambro…
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Top honour goes to scientific director of Douglas Hospital Research Centre
November 10, 2004 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Dr Rmi Quirion, scientific director of the Douglas Hospital Research Centre and the first scientific director of the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, has won the Wilder-Penfield Award. This award is given in recognition of…
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Anticancer drug receives patent
November 10, 2004 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Biopharmaceutical company Lorus Therapeutics, that specializes in the research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of cancer, says that its subsidiary, GeneSense Technologies, has been allowed a patent by the Canadian Patent…
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Tm Bioscience announces new collaboration with Genzyme
November 10, 2004 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Genetic testing developer Tm Bioscience says it has signed a development and supply agreement with biotech company Genzyme. Together, the companies will develop, validate and implement a custom product that they say is expected to yield initial…
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