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Alberta projects receive $15M in provincial funding
November 21, 2005 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Seventeen projects in Alberta are receiving a share of $15 million in funding from the provincial government. The projects focus on value-added agriculture, fire prevention, sustainable resource planning, climate change and energy production, among others. Following is…
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$2.25M awarded for research into depression
November 21, 2005 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Dr Allan Young, of the University of British Columbia, has been named to a new $2.25 million research chair in BC. As the new BC Leadership Chair in Depression Research, Dr Young will conduct research to translate…
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Varian acquires Britain’s Polymer Laboratories
November 21, 2005 by Lab Canada Palo Alto, CA – Instrument maker Varian says it has acquired PL International, and its subsidiaries including Polymer Laboratories, a privately owned company based in the UK, for approximately $42 million. The transaction also includes an opportunity for additional purchase…
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Prairie climate change research receives $2.7M federal funding
November 21, 2005 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal government is providing $2.7 million in research to explore the potential of prairie wetlands and agricultural lands to act as carbon sinks and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Agriculture and…
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Poxvirus used to fight cancer: malignant human brain tumours ‘cured’ in mice
November 16, 2005 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – A cross-Canada scientific collaboration has successfully tested a potent new cancer-fighting virus that eliminates malignant brain tumours and prolongs survival in mice with a single injection. The scientists – from Calgary and London, ON – have shown…
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Bioindustrial reseach projects to explore conversion of industrial materials
November 14, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The National Research Council Biotechnology Research Institute (NRC-BRI) says environmental sector has received two grants totalling $1.8 million over three-years from the Canadian Biomass Innovation Network. The first $1.4 million grant is for a project entitled “Natural…
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$5M funds expansion of agrifood research centre
November 14, 2005 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – The National Centre for Agrifood Research in Medicine (NCARM) will expand, with help from $5 million in funding provided by the Winnipeg Partnership Agreement and the federal-provincial Agricultural Policy Framework. NCARM, located at both the St Boniface…
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Water and climate change research receive funding support
November 14, 2005 by Lab Canada Victoria, BC – Research grants totalling nearly $230,000 will go to the University of Victoria (UVic) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) to study fisheries management, air quality and climate change in BC. The funding is being provided by…
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Viron Therapeutics wins 2005 Prix Galien Award
November 14, 2005 by Lab Canada London, ON – Viron Therapeutics has been named as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Prix Galien Canada award in Biotechnology. This award is one of the highest honours in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and recognizes excellence in medical…
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Small equipment funds give boost to university researchers
November 14, 2005 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – New researchers in Alberta are getting a $2 million boost with equipment grants from the Alberta government. The Small Equipment Grants Program helps first-time researchers set up their labs by investing in key equipment purchases. The grants…
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State-of-art greenhouse to enhance wild rose research
November 14, 2005 by Lab Canada Charlottetown, PEI – A new greenhouse, a key component for the Atlantic Canada Network on Bioactive Compounds, has been officially opened. The network investigates the health benefits of wild rosehips and wild blueberries. It is a pan-Atlantic collaboration of independent…
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$102.2M in new funding for 126 Canada Research Chairs
November 11, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The federal government today announced funding of $102.2 million for 126 Canada Research Chairs. “Holding a Canada Research Chair goes far beyond the financial benefit,” says Dr Chemtob, Canada Research Chair in Perinatology at the Universit de…
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IBM joins with cancer centers to accelerate research, diagnosis and treatment
November 9, 2005 by Lab Canada Washington, DC – IBM says it is joining forces with three cancer centres, one Canadian and two American, to help accelerate cancer research, diagnosis and treatment. Separate agreements have been made with Montreal’s CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center – Mother and…
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Mount Sinai Hospital names new research director
November 9, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dr Jim Woodgett, an internationally recognized molecular biologist known for research breakthroughs in understanding the molecular mechanisms contributing to breast and colon cancers, has been named the new director of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount…
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Funding to improve knowledge of highly migratory Atlantic fish
November 9, 2005 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – St Andrew’s Biological Station and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography will receive $203,000 from the federal government this year to improve the scientific understanding of highly migratory species in the Atlantic Ocean. “This funding will help us…
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$1.8M for research to eliminate multiple sclerosis
November 8, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The Quebec Division of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada says it has paid its largest-ever amount of over $1.8 million into the organization’s national research fund to discover the cause of and a cure for multiple…
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$18.6M in infrastructure support for university researchers
November 7, 2005 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, ON – The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has announced infrastructure funding totalling $18.6 million to support 87 projects in 31 universities across the country. Dr Eliot Phillipson, president and CEO of the CFI, was joined by Reg Alcock,…
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New $2M lab facilitates research into high-performance manufacturing
November 7, 2005 by Lab Canada Boucherville, QC – A $2-million laboratory devoted to a new technology called Thixomolding has been opened at the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Materials Institute (IMI-NRC) in Boucherville. The research conducted in the laboratory – said to be the…
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Cellular and biomolecular research centre opens in Toronto
November 4, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The opening of the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (CCBR) at the University of Toronto this week signals a new era of discovery in the prevention and treatment of disease, says U of T…
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Fisheries expert first Canadian to receive $415,000 international award
November 4, 2005 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – University of British Columbia professor Dr Daniel Pauly, one of the world’s leading fisheries conservation researchers, is the first Canadian to receive the International Cosmos Prize, awarded by the Expo’90 Foundation of Japan. Worth 40 million yen…
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$5M metals network aims to protect human health
November 4, 2005 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – A new $5.4-million national research network at the University of Guelph will help protect human health by enabling scientists to assess the risk of metals in water, soil, food and air and assist in setting regulatory policies.…
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Math research facility receives record US science funding
November 4, 2005 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, an international mathematics research facility with headquarters at the University of British Columbia, has received unprecedented funding from US, Albertan and Mexican funding agencies totaling nearly $10 million for the…
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New executive to develop international research relations for McGill
November 4, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – McGill University has created a new executive post that will be charged with the task of developing international research connections for the university. Professor Denis Thrien, director of the university’s school of computer science since 1997, has…
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$750,000 funding to support development of phage-based microrobotic system
November 4, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Biophage Pharma, which develops phage-based biosensors for live pathogen diagnostics, says it has received notification from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) of an award as part of a consortium of co-investigator headed…
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Stroke program leads clinical stroke research for Canada
November 3, 2005 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Two new clinical research studies on stroke and the appointment of a leading stroke neurologist to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, NWT & Nunavut, professorship in stroke research, have been announced by the University of…
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Infrastructure support totalling $48M for 312 Ontario research projects
October 31, 2005 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON V Ontario’s government is providing research infrastructure support worth a total of $48 million to 312 projects at 20 research institutes across the province. The funding is being provided through the newly created Ontario Research Fund (ORF). The…
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New fellowship to encourage MD training, research in allergic disease
October 31, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Three key players in the fight against the growing allergy epidemic in Canada have joined forces to increase the capacity of Canadian science to fight costly allergic and immune diseases. AllerGen NCE, a Network of Centres of…
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Bruker AXS to acquire Princeton Gamma-Tech x-ray microanalysis business
October 28, 2005 by Lab Canada Rocky Hill, NJ – Bruker AXS says it is acquiring the PGT X-ray microanalysis business with annual revenues of $5-6 million from Princeton Gamma-Tech Instruments. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the acquisition is expected to close…
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New centre researches Canada’s physical infrastructure
October 28, 2005 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – With Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments facing massive spending needs on physical infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and airports, a newly established centre at the University of Waterloo seeks to provide the knowledge to make the…
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$2.4M for Saskatchewan health researchers
October 28, 2005 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Health research in Saskatchewan just received a major boost with the injection of $2.4 million through the Regional Partnership Program (RPP), a program funded by the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan. Twenty health researchers received funding under…
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Breakthrough made in identifying bacteria and treating infections
October 28, 2005 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – Research by University of Waterloo chemistry professor Dr Susan Mikkelsen and former PhD student Peter Ertl has the potential to radically improve the response time of identifying and treating infectious disease. Based on a new advanced electrochemical…
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