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$51.4M supports 32 new brain research projects
September 16, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A total of $51.4 million in funding is being provided to 32 research projects under the Canada Brain Research Fund (CBRF). The projects are aimed at accelerating our understanding of nervous system function and dysfunction and their…
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$31.4M international collaborative research funding includes McGill project
September 16, 2014 by Lab Canada Boston, MA – A project at McGill University being led by principal investigator David Haegert is among the successful recipients of the first round of 22 research grants to projects in nine countries by the International Progressive MS Alliance. The grants…
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Canadian urology research grants announced
September 16, 2014 by Lab Canada Markham, ON – Recipients of the third annual CUA Astellas Research Grant Program have been announced by the Canadian Urological Association and Astellas Pharma Canada. In 2012, Astellas pledged $750,000 over a period of five years to the program, which…
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$3M funding for arthritis research
September 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Richmond, BC – The Arthritis Research Centre of Canada has received $3 million in funding to support research into prevention, diagnosis and treatment of arthritis. The funding is being provided by British Columbia’s provincial government. “With further research into this…
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$55.5M launches consortium to study neurodegenerative illnesses
September 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A new research network with $55.5 million in funding will focus on dementia research. The Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) was officially launched this week. To be led by Dr. Howard Chertkow, a cognitive neurologist…
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Discovery of new cellular connection makes scientific history
September 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers led by Dr. Helen McNeill at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute have revealed an exciting and unusual biochemical connection. Their discovery has implications for diseases linked to mitochondria, which are the primary sources of energy production within…
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$14.6M funding supports cancer research projects
September 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Announced just in time for the 2014 Terry Fox Run, cancer researchers in Toronto will receive the lion’s share of $14.6 million in funding from the Terry Fox Foundation. The funds will go to investigators at the…
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Can a protein be linked to heart attacks?
September 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, led by Dr. Alexandre Stewart, have uncovered an intriguing link between heart attacks and a protein that is of great interest to drug companies for its…
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Aquatic organism that eats water pollutants focus of collaboration
September 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Peterborough, ON – A new collaborative research initiative based at Trent University focuses on an algae-like organism known as euglena. The Euglena Research Program will bring together faculty and students at Trent to study the untapped potential of euglena, which…
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Neuroscience research the focus of new collaboration
September 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Janssen Inc. has signed an agreement – facilitated by the Johnson & Johnson Innovation centre in California – with the University of Toronto’s Centre for Collaborative Drug Research (CCDR) to form an open-source collaboration focused on novel…
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Arctic research gets $500,000 data boost
September 9, 2014 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – University of Calgary researchers are launching a new online platform to connect millions of pieces of information about the North. By collecting satellite reports and scientific analysis, accounts from local residents and even photographs and artwork in…
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Age reduces our stem cells’ ability to repair muscle: study
September 8, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – As we age, stem cells throughout our bodies gradually lose their capacity to repair damage, even from normal wear and tear. Researchers from the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute have discovered the reason…
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$10.7M supports national research cluster in organic agriculture
September 8, 2014 by Lab Canada Halifax, NS – A new cluster devoted to scientific research and education about organic agriculture, the Organic Science Cluster II, has been launched at Dalhousie University. A sequel to an earlier, five-year-old cluster – the new cluster supports research and…
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Alberta team designs compound that targets brain cancer
September 5, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – University of Alberta chemistry professor Christopher Cairo and his team of researchers have synthesized a first-of-its-kind inhibitor that prevents the activity of the enzyme neuraminidase. Although flu viruses use enzymes with the same mechanism as part of…
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Prostate cancer researchers awarded funding
September 4, 2014 by Lab Canada Markham, ON – The Canadian Urologic Oncology Group, the Canadian Urological Association and Astellas Pharma Canada announced the four inaugural recipients of the CUA-CUOG Astellas Research Grant. Last year, Astellas pledged $450,000 over three years to the program, which supports…
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$2.7M for weather and environmental services research
September 4, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – The federal government has announced $2.7 million in funding that will support 14 projects involving research in the areas of weather and environmental services. Projects receiving funding are as follows: Project Title: Provision of Avalanche Safety Programs…
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OICR joins Open Cloud Consortium to collaborate on genome data
September 4, 2014 by Lab Canada Chicago, IL – The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) say they have entered into a multi-year agreement that brings OICR into the OCC. OICR will be involved with several OCC Working Groups, including…
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$68M funding supports five new commercialization centres
September 4, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Five new commercialization centres are receiving support from the federal government to support their research and development activities. In Vancouver, for example, the Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator will receive $14.5 million over five years to support new…
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Key mechanism in metastasis discovered by Alberta researchers
September 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – A new study from the research group of Dr. John Lewis at the University of Alberta and the Lawson Health Research Institute has confirmed that invadopodia play a key role in the spread of cancer. The study,…
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$5M supports research into neurodegenerative diseases
August 15, 2014 by Lab Canada London, ON – A $5-million gift to Western University will be devoted to supporting researchers studying neurodegenerative diseases. The funding will be used to advance a special five-year study, led by Dr. Michael J. Strong, Dean of Schulich Medicine &…
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Gene variant identified as a heart disease risk factor for women
August 15, 2014 by Lab Canada London, ON – When it comes to heart disease, Dr. Ross Feldman says women are often in the dark. Historically, it was thought that heart disease was a men’s-only disease, however, data has shown that post-menopausal women are just as…
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Tuberculosis specialist wins medical association’s top honour
August 15, 2014 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The University of Alberta’s Anne Fanning has won the Canadian Medical Association’s highest honour, the Frederic Newton Gisborne Starr Award. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario medical school, Dr. Fanning did postgraduate training in internal…
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Digital pathology supplier forms new distributor agreements
August 15, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Objective Pathology Services, which develops digital pathology infrastructure and software solutions, has announced two new distribution agreements. The company has formed a partnership with Microscopes International to introduce their new uSCOPE Digital Microscope, which it says is…
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University Health Network appoints new chief executive
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dr. Peter Pisters, currently vice president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Regional Care System, has been named as the University Health Network (UHN)’s next president & CEO. Dr. Pisters is an internationally known…
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Black hole at the birth of the universe
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Waterloo, ON – Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe, propose a trio of Perimeter Institute researchers in the cover story of the latest Scientific American. The big bang poses a big question: if…
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Discovery sheds light on where visual memories are born
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Researchers at McGill University have discovered there is a clear frontier in the brain between the area that encodes information about what is immediately before the eyes and the area that encodes the abstract representations that are…
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Research uncovers treatment for male infertility FASEB
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Richard Oko, a researcher at Queen’s University, and his co-investigators have come up with a promising method of treating male infertility using a synthetic version of the sperm-originated protein known as PAWP. They found this protein is…
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Just how many bugs are on that elevator button?
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Elevator buttons are more likely to be colonized by bacteria than toilet surfaces, a new Sunnybrook-led study of three large urban hospitals has found. “Elevators are a component of modern hospital care, and are used by multiple…
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Mixed genes mix up the migrations of hybrid birds
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Mixed genes appear to drive hybrid birds to select more difficult routes than their parent species, according to new research from University of British Columbia zoologists. The study was recently published online in Ecology Letters. Researcher Kira…
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$6.25M in NSERC funding for math research consortium
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an international mathematics consortium headquartered at the University of British Columbia, has been awarded $6.25 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC). “We have received…
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Milky Way, Andromeda galaxies have vastly different masses
August 12, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Astronomers at the University of British Columbia have collaborated with international researchers to calculate the precise mass of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, dispelling the notion that the two galaxies have similar masses. While it was…
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