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Innovation centre with nanotechnology commercialization focus opens
October 5, 2007 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The NINT Innovation Centre, a part of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) of the National Research Council, has official opened. The centre rents space to start-up and existing companies or to industrial collaborators that will benefit…
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Nanotechnology research centres selected in bid for $7M funding
October 1, 2007 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Nanotechnology association NanoQuebec says it has selected seven nanotechnology research centres for funding totalling $7 million. Six of the applications have been accepted and the seventh received a favourable conditional response. Following are the six accepted institutions,…
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R&D initiative puts Canadian group at forefront of robotic surgery
October 1, 2007 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Control-system developer Quanser says it has joined in a new research and development partnership to advance robotically assisted surgery. The initiative, a joint effort between Canadian Surgical Technology and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) and Ontario Centres of Excellence…
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$1.6M funding for public health projects that access geospatial data
September 17, 2007 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – GeoConnections – a federal geographic online service – is providing around $1.6 million to help fund 14 public health-related research projects in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. Project partners are contributing another $2.1 million for…
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$500M fund launched to support next-generation renewable fuels
September 12, 2007 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – A new fund, with $500 million in funding provided by the federal government, will focus on jumpstarting the development and production of next-generation renewable fuels. The fund will be managed by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). “This…
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$2M to help attract first-time industrial users to synchrotron
September 10, 2007 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – A new program that will offer reduced fees to first-time users of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron is receiving $2 million in funding from the federal government. The program is intended to give industry a strong…
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Large-scale production of phages gets green light
September 5, 2007 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Following a successful pilot study, biotech company Biophage Pharma says it has signed a follow-on contract with Alberta Agriculture and Food to proceed with the production of large-scale volumes of highly purified bacteriophage preparations in a fermentor.…
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Research project to increase value of by-products from ethanol fuel production
August 30, 2007 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – The University of Manitoba will receive funding for further research to enhance the value of livestock feed uses for distillers dried grain, a high protein by-product of ethanol production. The Canada-Manitoba Economic Partnership Agreement is contributing $202,820…
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Cleaner, greener and more profitable process for refining copper
August 27, 2007 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – A researcher at the University of British Columbia, Dr David Dixon, has invented an environmentally friendly and cheaper way to produce high quality copper from low-grade concentrates, thus expanding potential copper reserves. The university has granted Bateman…
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Fuel cell commercialization projects get $1.63M funding
August 23, 2007 by Lab Canada Mississauga, ON – Four fuel cell commercialization project are receiving a total of $1.63M in support from Ontario’s provincial government. Hydrogenics Corporation, a Mississauga-based company that is commercializing hydrogen and fuel cell products, leads three of the newly announced projects:…
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Grants support imaging research for cancer
August 20, 2007 by Lab Canada London, ON – A new grant program has given 11 scientists in London support in developing sophisticated imaging technology to detect cancer on a microscopic level. A $385,000 grant by Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is being distributed through the Cancer…
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Gas-leak instrument passes phase one of lab tests
July 30, 2007 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Technology development company Synodon says it has successfully completed the first phase of laboratory testing with its field-deployable instrument for sensing natural gas pipeline leaks. The test results confirmed the ability of the instrument to detect ethane…
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Medical testing project develops new bedside devices for clinical research
July 9, 2007 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The University of Toronto’s BioOptics: Transformative Technologies for Life Sciences Project, which was recently awarded a $7.8 million grant through the Research Excellence program of the Ontario Research Fund, has formed a commercial agreement to develop the…
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Product safety innovation gets funding boost
July 9, 2007 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – A new Advanced Prototyping Hub at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has received $996,300 in funding from the federal government. The money will be used to purchase equipment to establish the hub and improve the…
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Alberta Research Council purchases CT scanner for sustainable energy resource recovery research
June 25, 2007 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The purchase of a $1.2 million research x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner by the Alberta Research Council (ARC) is opening up research opportunities in the area of sustainable energy resource recovery. The scanner’s high-resolution 3D images the…
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$2.7M funding for satellite imaging centre
June 25, 2007 by Lab Canada Lethbridge, AB – The Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre at the University of Lethbridge is receiving $2.7 million in funding from the federal government. The funding will help the centre to research the potential uses of satellite images and purchase satellite…
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Federal nanotechnology initiative issues call for proposals
June 18, 2007 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The National Research Council (NRC), NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) and Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) have announced a special opportunity for NRC scientists and Canadian academic researchers in nanoscience and nanotechnology. They are…
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Award-winning project used 3D tools to develop waste decontamination method
June 4, 2007 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A 17-year-old high school student from New Liskeard is presenting his award-winning science project – a method of naturally decontaminating wood waste – at the Ontario Research and Education Summit in Toronto. The winner of the first…
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Project supports development of direct fired syngas for boilers and kilns
May 28, 2007 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Nexterra Energy has received $720,000 in funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) and Ethanol BC to support a product development program to directly fire boilers and lime…
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Satellite imaging centre gets $2.7M funding
May 28, 2007 by Lab Canada Lethbridge, AB – The Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre (ATIC) at the University of Lethbridge is receiving $2.7 million in funding from the federal government. The funding, to be allocated in two stages, will allow the centre to research the potential…
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Industrial R&D project gets $2M financial boost
May 14, 2007 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – An Ontario manufacturer is receiving $2.48 support from the provincial government to create an industrial research and development centre of excellence project. The company, Skyjack, is a division of Linamar Corporation’s industrial group and manufactures mobile aerial…
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$1M in grants awarded to advance cellulosic ethanol development
May 4, 2007 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Biochemicals developer Lignol Energy says that its subsidiary, Lignol Innovations has been awarded grants of up to $994,620 from the Alberta government and the National Research Council (NRC), to support the ongoing development and commercialization of its…
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Mars mission concept teams receive funding go-ahead
April 30, 2007 by Lab Canada Longueuil, QC – As part of an international effort to send a manned mission to Mars, Canadian Space Agency recently announced an opportunity to develop mission concepts. The concepts are intended to define the role Canada might play and the…
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Demo plant to turn trash into power
April 30, 2007 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – A demonstration plant that turns garbage into clean energy is receiving $4 million in funding from the Ontario government The demonstration plant, operated by the Plasco Energy Group in Ottawa, uses a sealed system to break down…
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Nanotech start-up gets seed money from Ontario
April 30, 2007 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Northern Nanotechnologies is receiving $250,000 of pre-seed investment through Ontario Centres of Excellence’s Commercialization program. The nanomaterials company’s key innovation is a patent-pending, scalable, and cost effective method to custom design nanomaterials for a wide range of…
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NRC scientists produce world’s most sensitive radio detectors to probe universe
April 23, 2007 by Lab Canada Victoria, BC – The National Research Council of Canada says it has designed and built the most sensitive and precise radio detector ever built for millimeter-wavelength operation. The Band 3 millimeter-wavelength radio receiver promises to revolutionize studies of the cold…
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Metabolomics company opens R&D facility in Montreal
April 23, 2007 by Lab Canada Chester, NJ and Montreal, QC – Molecular Biometrics, a privately held metabolomics company, says it has opened a research and development facility in Montreal. “It was a propitious time to set-up a research facility in Montreal to further develop our…
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Environmental tech commercialization effort gets $2M funding
March 26, 2007 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – Not-for-profit corporation C3 EnviroTech Solutions has received $2 million in federal funding to help commercialize and market new environmental technologies. The organization will create the Technology Solutions Hub, which will help small- and medium-sized enterprises take their…
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Medical researchers navigate wireless device inside artery
March 19, 2007 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Researchers in the NanoRobotics Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal’s department of computer engineering and institute of biomedical engineering say they have succeeded in guiding, in vivo and via computer control, a microdevice inside an artery, at…
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Greenhouse gas research receives funding support
March 19, 2007 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The federal government last week announced funding for the development of Innoventures Canada’s (I-CAN) Centre for the Conversion of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). One of I-CAN’s goals is to develop practical technologies that will remove 100 million tonnes…
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$5.4M supports green technology R&D
March 12, 2007 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – The Ontario Fuel Cell Research and Innovation Network (OFCRIN), based at Queens University, is receiving a funding boost from the Ontario government. OFCRIN, a partnership between researchers from eight universities and 12 industry partners, has been awarded…
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