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Calgary celebrates Canada’s first chair in pediatric neurosciences

January 17, 2005 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, the Kinsmen Club of Stampede City, the Kinsmen Care Foundation, the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, and the Calgary Health Region have announced that Dr Samuel Wiebe is the first appointee…
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Ontario unveils fuel cell research program

January 17, 2005 by Lab Canada Mississauga, ON – A new fuel cell innovation program in Ontario will provide $3 million in annual funding through 2007-08 with a focus on commercialization and moving products to the manufacturing stage. Fuel cells power vehicles, homes, offices, cell phones…
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Discovery sheds new light on ancient temperatures

January 13, 2005 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – A discovery by a team of Queen’s University scientists suggests that ancient earth was much colder than previously thought – a discovery that has broad implications for those studying the earth’s climate.<br><br>The researchers have discovered the mineral…
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McGill researchers to test new leukemia drug

January 13, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a malignant cancer of the blood that affects people of all ages. While treatment is available for most of these patients, approximately 20% of them do not respond to it. Researchers at…
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Veterinary college names new dean

January 13, 2005 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – Dr Elizabeth Arnold Stone has been appointed dean of the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph. She will become the first woman to head a veterinary school in Canada. Her five-year term begins June 1.…
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Nanotechnologists’ new material harvests sun’s invisible rays

January 13, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers at University of Toronto have invented an infrared-sensitive material that is five times more efficient at converting solar energy than today’s best plastic solar cells. In a paper published on the Nature Materials website on January…
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ATS sponsors FIRST robotics competition

January 13, 2005 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – ATS Automation Tooling Systems has donated $50,000 in support of the FIRST Waterloo Regional student robotics competition which will be hosted by the University of Waterloo, March 24-26. The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and…
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First of its kind biomed lab gets $3 million funding

January 10, 2005 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MN – Research that looks at finding better ways to help transplant and cancer patients will be part of a new systems biology program that will receive over $3 million in medical research funding from the Manitoba government. The…
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Thermo Electron and SOTAX collaborate to provide comprehensive dissolution service

January 10, 2005 by Lab Canada Madison, WI – Thermo Electron has concluded an OEM agreement with Basel-based SOTAX, in which SOTAX dissolution baths will be offered with a Thermo Nicolet UV-Vis spectrophotometer. The partners say the collaboration will provide pharmaceutical customers with a high-quality, complete,…
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Diabetes researcher receives funding from charitable foundation

January 10, 2005 by Lab Canada The Winnipeg Cosmopolitan Club presented $40,000 to the University of Manitoba, on behalf of the Cosmopolitan Foundation Canada for diabetes research. Each year Cosmopolitan clubs in Western Canada undertake fund-raising activities to support research projects in search for a cure…
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Aventis Pasteur changes name to Sanofi Pasteur

January 10, 2005 by Lab Canada Paris, France – Sanofi-Aventis has announced an official change of name for the Aventis Pasteur company, which is now named Sanofi Pasteur. The Aventis Pasteur MSD joint venture, equally owned by Aventis Pasteur and Merck, which markets vaccines in Europe,…
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New centre of excellence for energy for Ontario

January 10, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The Ontario government is providing $8 million in funding, over four years, to create a new centre of excellence for energy. The new centre is intended to help to explore options for viable, affordable long-term and environmentally-friendly…
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Collaboration to focus on characterizing biocontrol organisms

January 7, 2005 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The Alberta Research Council and International BioRecovery of North Vancouver have signed an agreement the research council’s scientists will characterize the nature of International BioRecovery’s biologically active soil fertility product. The partners say the collaboration has the…
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RhoxalPharma donates antibiotic drug worth $1 million to tsunami survivors

January 6, 2005 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – As a part of a global humanitarian response, generic pharmaceutical company RhoxalPharma is making a major contribution to the relief effort to benefit the survivors of the tsunami disaster in Asia. The survivors of this tragedy face…
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New national network focusses on gender differences in cardiovascular disease

January 3, 2005 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – A team of clinician-investigators jointly affiliated with McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences has formed the GRACE or Gender Research and Cardiovascular Evaluation Network. The goal of the network is to perform high-quality gender-based research in cardiovascular…
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Details released on 48 Ontario projects to receive funding

January 3, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – In early December, the Ontario government announced that it was providing $53.2 million in funding to support 48 projects in universities across the province. The government has now also identified the individual projects being funded. The $53.2…
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New test for transplant rejection on the horizon

January 3, 2005 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Researchers at St Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital are developing a revolutionary new test to diagnose and facilitate treatment of organ rejection in transplant patients. The $9.1-million Vancouver-based study, called Better Biomarkers of Acute and Chronic…
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Clinical faculty role, procedures codified at U of T

January 3, 2005 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Academic freedom for University of Toronto’s clinical faculty is now more formally protected, say university administrators, after its governing council approved a broad policy governing clinical faculty appointments at its Dec 16 meeting. The overwhelming majority of…
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Brain researchers to develop new class of drugs to repair psychiatric disorders

January 3, 2005 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – So-called ‘smart’ drugs, capable of targeting specific brain cells to control psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, may be ready for early clinical trials within three years, according to researchers at the University of British Columbia.…
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Environment Canada awards $382,000 for research projects in Nunavik

December 22, 2004 by Lab Canada Kuujjuaq, QC – The federal government has announced funding of more than $382,000 between now and 2008 for research projects designed to benefit Inuit communities in northern Quebec’s Nunavik region. The money will be provided through the Northern Ecosystems Initiative…
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ChondroGene and Pfizer extend osteoarthritis collaboration

December 21, 2004 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Functional genomics research company ChondroGene says it has entered into a new two-year research collaboration with Pfizer for identifying novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers for the treatment and diagnosis of osteoarthritis (OA). The collaboration will continue the…
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Brain imaging system developer wins US defense research contract

December 21, 2004 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – VSM MedTech, which develops magnetoencephalography (MEG) systems for functional brain imaging, says it has been awarded a research contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization for the United States…
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$1.5M grant supports pulp and paper research

December 21, 2004 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Two new Industrial Research Chairs have been established in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University, with $1.5 million in funding from Science and Engineering Research Canada (NSERC). The industry partner in the initiative is the Pulp…
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Drug-discovery company increases Phase I research capacities

December 21, 2004 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Drug-discovery company MDS Pharma Services says it has expanded and enhanced its facilities in St Laurent, QC, and Neptune, NJ, adding 108 beds for early clinical research. The expansion increases the facilities’ capacities to 304 and 128…
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Chemist awarded Polanyi Prize

December 21, 2004 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – McMaster University’s Dr Chrif Matta has been recognized for his pioneering research in theoretical chemistry with a John Charles Polanyi Prize. The province of Ontario established the prestigious awards to support outstanding researchers in the early stages…
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Reproductive methods of archaea organisms studied

December 21, 2004 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – A trio of Dalhousie researchers has discovered that Halorubrum, a group of bacteria-like organisms that thrive in extremely salty environments, are highly promiscuous. Senior researcher Dr Thane Papke, graduate student Jeremy Koenig and Dr W Ford Doolittle,…
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Royal Society honour for University of Alberta professor

December 21, 2004 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – Dr Daniel W Smith of the University of Alberta’s department of civil and environmental engineering has been awarded a 2004 Royal Society of Canada Fellow in the Applied Sciences and Engineering division. Professor Smith has established himself…
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DNA teaching and research facility gets nod

December 20, 2004 by Lab Canada Peterborough, ON – A business plan outlining the construction of a DNA research and teaching facility to house Trent University researchers engaged in DNA related research has been approved by the university’s board of governors. The university says the facility…
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Ozone Research Lab opens in Guelph

December 20, 2004 by Lab Canada Guelph, ON – An Ozone Research Lab has opened at the University of Guelph that will help scientists control microbial contamination and advance research projects ranging from enhancing greenhouse production to improving food safety to human life support in space…
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$2 million donated to pharmacy faculty

December 20, 2004 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Canadian pharmaceutical company Apotex has pledged another $2 million in addition to its original $5-million donation towards the new Leslie L Dan Pharmacy Building at the University of Toronto. The gift will support the establishment of a…
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Grant supports research into winter flounder for NB aquaculture industry

December 20, 2004 by Lab Canada Saint John, NB – Matthew Litvak, professor of biology and director of the Centre for Coastal Studies and Aquaculture at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, has been awarded a $458,500 research grant. Funded by the National Science and…
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Ontario provides $53.2M for innovation research

December 16, 2004 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Forty-eight projects located in 17 universities and research institutions across Ontario are being provided with a total of $53.2 million in funding by the Ontario government. Recipients were awarded funding based on scientific and technical merit as…