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$21M funding supports new tech projects in forest sector
March 20, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Canada’s forest industries R&D institute FPInnovations (FPI) is receiving $20.6 million in funding from Natural Resources Canada. The funding announcement was made at the Ontario Forest Industries Association’s 72nd annual meeting in late February. The funding will…
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Project proposals sought for nanomaterial-based biosensor research
February 24, 2015 by Lab Canada Heidelberg, Germany – Roche and BioMed X are jointly establishing a collaborative research group to develop a novel sensor technology platform based on new nanomaterials such as graphene. To that end, they are inviting early-career scientists from academic institutions worldwide…
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Global project boosts understanding of human epigenome
February 23, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Research from the BC Cancer Agency was featured on February 18 in the journal Nature as part of a special issue highlighting 20 papers that are the outcome of a seven-year project mapping the epigenome. The term…
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$26.8 million supports clean tech projects
February 23, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), has announced seven clean technology projects in Ontario are receiving funding of $26.8 million, supporting jobs, economic growth and the environment. The projects are as follows: Grafoid Inc. in Ottawa will receive…
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Collaboration to research deadly porcine disease
February 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The PED virus kills young piglets at an astonishing rate with a near 100% mortality rate in suckling pigs. A Canadian collaboration has been launched to understand and stop the disease to protect the young pigs and…
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Worldwide collaboration to fund research into brain diseases
February 11, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, Chicago & London – Three leading research funders from North America and the UK have joined forces to launch a new global initiative called MEND or, MEchanisms of cellular death in NeuroDegeneration. The initiative has a fund of $1.25…
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Merck joins Toronto consortium with $7.5 M contribution
February 5, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Pharmaceutical company Merck has joined the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) Toronto with a contribution of $7.5 million. The supported projects focus on pre-competitive research to develop small inhibitory molecules called chemical probes to study epigenetic mechanisms of…
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Biologics and vaccine development focus of new centre of excellence
February 5, 2015 by Lab Canada Laval, QC – Drug discovery project facilitator NEOMED has announced the launch of the Biologics and Vaccine Centre of Excellence in Laval under a proposed partnership with GSK. The organization says the centre will be the only one of its…
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H. pylori vaccine the target of $575,000 collaboration
January 29, 2015 by Lab Canada Sudbury, ON – In a two-year, $575,000 agreement, researchers at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the Advanced Medical Research Institute of Canada (AMRIC) and Lilly Creek Vaccines are collaborating to develop a Helicobacter pylori vaccine. Under the agreement,…
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Forest genomics drives partnership between Laval and Oxford universities
January 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – A partnership the create an international consortium in forest genomics has been formed between Université Laval and Oxford University. The partnership was announced by Marc LePage, president and CEO of Génome Québec. Spearheaded by Professor John MacKay,…
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Collaboration to advance cardiac, diabetes and depression technologies
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – MaRS Innovation has formed a research collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation and its Canadian affiliate, Janssen Inc., to advance technologies focused on cardiac, diabetes and depression through three projects. The projects’ principal investigators are researchers from…
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What’s killing the world’s scallops and oysters?
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – Many scallops are not even growing to be fully-sized, as higher ocean acidity and other potential problems kill them when they are only seedlings. Farmed scallops and oysters are dying at devastating rates worldwide and an interdisciplinary…
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$26.3M awarded for research in arrhythmia
January 13, 2015 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Arrhythmia Network (CANet) is receive a total of $26.3 million over five years from the federal government to collaborate on research aimed at reducing premature deaths and suffering caused by heart rhythm disturbances. The study…
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$60M national initiative for innovative cancer treatments
December 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Vancouver, BC – The BC Cancer Agency researchers will play a key role in the first Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) devoted to cancer research, announced this month with a $25 million commitment from the federal government and an…
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Canadians lead international team developing novel vaccines
December 30, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dalton Pharma Services, a privately owned pharmaceutical services provider, says it has been awarded funding from ISTPCanada as part of an international vaccine development project under the 2013 Canada-China Joint Initiative on Human Vaccine Research and Development program.…
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New institute to study regenerative medicine
December 3, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A new institute has been set up in Ontario to study the diseases of aging, and at the same time the first three awards being funded under the new institute have been announced, with a total of…
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Cutting-edge severe weather forecasting technology to be developed
December 2, 2014 by Lab Canada Québec City, QC – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the National Optics Institute (INO) have formed a partnership to improve forecasting of severe weather events. As part of the partnership, the CSA is awarding a contract worth $650,000 to…
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$3.8M funding launches new multi-discipline innovation facility
October 15, 2014 by Lab Canada Kelowna, BC – The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus is receiving $3.8M from Western Economic Diversification to open a research facility that will develop technologies for human protection, survivability and performance in extreme or remote conditions. At the new…
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Xerox research partnership focuses on green chemistry
October 6, 2014 by Lab Canada Mississauga, ON – The Xerox Research Centre Canada (XRCC) has signed an agreement with GreenCentre Canada – a national centre of excellence working with academia and industrial partners to identify and develop green technologies. As part of the agreement, XRCC…
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New compound developed for cord blood expansion
September 23, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Researchers at the University of Montreal and University of Toronto have identified a new method for the ex vivo expansion of human cord blood cells that could potentially increase the number of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) available…
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Project to develop room-temperature storage for fragile biologics
September 23, 2014 by Lab Canada Hamilton, ON – A project at McMaster University is receiving $112,000 in seed funding from Grand Challenges Canada. The project, to be led by Carlos Filipe in the university’s chemical engineering department and Ali Ashkar of the McMaster Immunology Research…
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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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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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International dark matter experiment coming to SNOLAB
July 21, 2014 by Lab Canada Sudbury, ON – The SuperCDMS experiment is coming to the SNOLAB underground science facility. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is an international, multimillion-dollar dark matter experiment currently based in Minnesota with plans to progress the project by building a…
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$2.5M funding to study genetic link among three chronic diseases
July 15, 2014 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) has been awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to explore a possible genetic link…
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$5M awarded to prostate cancer research team
July 15, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Dr. John Bartlett of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (principal investigator) and his team of 14 co-investigators from several provinces have been awarded the $5 million 2014 Movember Team Grant. Their research is entitled ‘The prostate…
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Battery materials R&D the focus of new collaboration
July 8, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Hydro-Québec and the Regional Council of Aquitaine (France) have signed an agreement signalling their interest in collaborating in the field of advanced battery materials for transportation electrification. For several years, Hydro-Québec’s Research Institute has explored various technologies…
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Canada, Australia to collaborate in stem cell research
June 17, 2014 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON and Melbourne, Australia – Canada’s Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) and the Stem Cells Australia consortium have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together to increase the translation of stem cell research in…
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$15 million funding boosts cancer trials collaboration
June 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – The NCIC Clinical Trials Group (CTG) at Queen’s University has been awarded $15 million in funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health through the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) to strengthen its work leading major cancer…
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Partner network launched in lab information open framework project
March 11, 2014 by Lab Canada Chicago, IL – Allotrope Foundation, a consortium of pharmaceutical and biotech companies, says it has reached the first major milestone in the development of its laboratory information framework and announced the launch of a partner network to encourage further collaboration.…
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NRC and Rio Tinto Alcan join in aluminium extrusion research partnership
February 28, 2014 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Rio Tinto Alcan has announced a new research program in aluminium extrusion with the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. The five-year partnership will bring together the aluminium transformation expertise of Rio Tinto Alcan and the NRC…
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