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New model tests HER2-positive breast cancer treatments
May 6, 2013 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – Scientists at Dalhousie Medical School have developed a new and effective way to test potential new treatments for aggressive, metabolically active HER2-positive breast cancers. Dr. Paola Marignani is principal investigator of the team of scientists that has…
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Pharmaceutical awards honour UBC team
May 6, 2013 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) Awards for 2013 have been awarded to a team of scientists at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Faculty members Drs. John McNeill and Kishor Wasan, graduate student…
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$11M funding to enhance use of data collected through genomics research
April 29, 2013 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Seventeen bioinformatics and computational biology research projects across the country are receiving a total of $11 million in funding. The projects are being awarded through Genome Canada’s 2012 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition, a partnership between Genome…
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Five brain research teams awarded $1.5M grants
April 29, 2013 by Lab Canada Toronto ON – Five teams comprised of researchers from among Canada’s top medical and research institutes are the first to be funded through the W. Garfield Weston Foundation – Brain Canada Multi-Investigator Research Initiative (MIRI). The teams, each of which…
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Genome Canada award to help researchers develop personalized medicine software
April 25, 2013 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dr. Lincoln Stein, who is program leader, informatics and bio-computing with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), has been awarded $250,000 through Genome Canada’s Bioinformatics and Computational Biology competition, in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of…
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First-ever vaccine to help control autism-related gut bacteria
April 25, 2013 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Researchers at the University of Guelph have created a vaccine for gut bacteria common in autistic children, which they say is the first of a kind. The results were published last week in a study by Brittany…
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CSMLS calls for regulation of medical laboratory assistants
April 23, 2013 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – The Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) is calling for the regulation of medical laboratory assistants (MLAs) in all jurisdictions across Canada, which it says will enhance patient safety for Canadians. Regulation would define the scope…
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Research proposals sought for $125M funding in personalized health research
April 23, 2013 by Lab Canada Chicago, IL and Montreal QC – Quebec’s provincial government has outlined details about $125 million funding it is providing to the Quebec Network for Personalized Health Care (QNPHC). Announced as part of the government’s recent 2013-2014 budget speech, the funding…
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CQDM and Massachusetts Life Sciences Center join in partnership program
April 23, 2013 by Lab Canada Chicago, IL – Biopharmaceutical research-funding organization CQDM is joining the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) in a new initiative to create an International Collaborative Industry Program (ICIP). This initiative will support the establishment of partnerships between Massachusetts and Quebec-based life…
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$10.8M funding for new tests for drug-resistant epilepsy
April 22, 2013 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A team led by Dr. Patrick Cossette at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) has been awarded $10.8 million from Genome Quebec and Genome Canada to conduct a four-year study to develop a personalized medicine…
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Childhood vaccines the focus of new research chair
April 15, 2013 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – Dr. Joanne Langley is the recipient of the new CIHR-GSK Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology. Dr. Langley is a professor at Dalhousie University, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at IWK Health Centre, and director of the Clinical Evaluation…
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Academia-industry collaboration to develop new cancer treatment
April 15, 2013 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Pharmaceutical company Pharmascience and the Université de Montréal have signed an agreement that furthers a collaboration between academic research, public institutions, patient disease groups and the pharmaceutical industry. The agreement was coordinated by the university’s Institute for…
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Cancer vaccine research facilitated by new fellowship
April 15, 2013 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Dr. Ayman Mohammad has been named the first recipient of the Terry Fox Postdoctoral Fellowship, to be held at the University of Saskatchewan’s (U of S) College of Pharmacy and Nutrition. The award, jointly provided by the…
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Dr John Wallace to receive Heymans Foundation Memorial Medal
April 8, 2013 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – Dr John Wallace, professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine at McMaster University, will be awarded the Heymans Foundation Memorial Medal in Ghent, Belgium, on November 7. This prestigious award, named after Corneille Heymans, a 1938 Nobel…
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New chief scientific officer for Genome Prairie
April 8, 2013 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Genome Prairie has appointed Chris Barker as chief scientific officer. In this role, Mr. Barker will have responsibility for the organization’s strategic research and partnership agenda. The organization says he has extensive technical, scientific and management experience through…
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Company of year award for Xenon Pharmaceuticals
April 8, 2013 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Xenon Pharmaceuticals has been awarded the LifeSciences British Columbia Life Sciences Company of the Year Award for 2013. “We are honored to be recognized by our industry peers in this way,” said Simon Pimstone, Xenon’s president and…
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IRCM scientists propose the existence of a new code in biology
April 4, 2013 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – In recently published articles in PLoS Genetics and Biochimica Biophysica Acta, Benoit Coulombe, director of the Gene Transcription and Proteomics research unit at the institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team have proposed a…
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Scientific director appointed to musculoskeletal research institute
April 2, 2013 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy has been appointed scientific director of Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA). The appointment will be effective on April 15. “I’m pleased to welcome Dr. El-Gabalawy to…
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$150M supports personalized health research projects
April 1, 2013 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The results of a major $150-million genomics and personalized health competition, a Genome Canada – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) partnership – have been announced. Seventeen projects in total have been approved for funding, each valued…
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Research triples known genetic variations involved in breast cancer risk
April 1, 2013 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Working with an international consortium conducting research on breast, ovarian and prostate cancer among 200,000 people, Professor Jacques Simard, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Oncogenetics at Laval University, was actively involved in the discovery of…
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$1M funding for research into antidepressant derived from eggs
April 1, 2013 by Lab Canada Mississauga, ON – Egg Farmers of Ontario (EFO) is providing $1 million in research and development funding to United Paragon Associates (UPA) to fund clinical trials of a new antidepressant drug derived from eggs. “Egg Farmers of Ontario believes there…
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Can a gold-plated micro-chip detect the growth of cancer?
March 25, 2013 by Lab Canada London, ON – A multi-disciplinary team of researchers led by scientists in London and Toronto is developing a simple tool that could one day make it easier to choose the best available cancer treatments for individual patients and improve their…
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$1.3M funding supports life sciences research projects
March 17, 2013 by Lab Canada St John’s, NL – Newfoundland’s Research & Development Corporation (RDC) has announced a total of $1.3 million in funding for 12 health and life sciences-related projects. Researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Faculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy and Faculty…
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Scientists get green light to test Medical Isotope Project facility
March 11, 2013 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Scientists at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron are ready to test the Medical Isotope Project (MIP) facility after receipt of the commissioning licence from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. With the licence, the MIP will undergo testing…
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Cause of heart arrhythmia discovered
March 11, 2013 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Using powerful X-rays at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, scientists have reconstructed the scenario of heart arrhythmia in action, making critical progress towards preventing deadly conditions and saving lives. The research was published in the journal Nature…
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Discovery may help fight antimicrobial drug resistance
March 2, 2013 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – A new potential target for battling disease-causing bacteria – especially deadly bugs that resist current antibiotics – may result from a study by University of Guelph researchers. The study has shown for the first time the workings…
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Canadian adult obesity at historic high
March 2, 2013 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Obesity rates across Canada are reaching alarming levels and continue to climb, according to a new University of British Columbia study. Published on February 27 in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, the study provides the first…
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$22M funding to advance new sources of medical isotopes
February 28, 2013 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal government has signed agreements with three organizations to develop new sources of supply of the key medical isotope, technetium-99m (Tc-99m). Tc-99m is the most widely used isotope for medical imaging, which is used in approximately…
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$13M in grants to impact cancer research
February 27, 2013 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The largest single grants ever offered by the Canadian Cancer Society, the society’s Impact Grants have a maximum value of $1.25 million per grant over five years. They are intended to fund the best, most promising cancer…
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New swine flu strain unlikely to cause pandemic
February 25, 2013 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – An emerging swine flu strain responsible for hundreds of infections in the United States appears unlikely to trigger a global pandemic in the short term but requires ongoing monitoring, according to a new Michael Smith Foundation for…
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Chronic pain alters DNA marking in the brain
February 25, 2013 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Injuries that result in chronic pain, such as limb injuries, and those unrelated to the brain are associated with epigenetic changes in the brain which persist months after the injury, according to researchers at McGill University. Epigenetics…
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