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Dow and DuPont to merge, then split
December 11, 2015 by Lab Canada Wilmington, DE and Midland, MI – DuPont and The Dow Chemical Company today announced an agreement to combine in what is dubbed an ‘all-stock merger of equals’. The combined company will be named DowDuPont and will have a combined market…
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$1.4M funding supports research internships in Manitoba
December 9, 2015 by Lab Canada Winnipeg, MB – Research Manitoba has announced $1.4 million of funding to support research internships between researchers and Manitoba companies or not-for-profits through Mitacs. Mitacs connects companies and not-for-profit organizations with local experts in the academic community to address their…
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Canada’s chemist awards announced for 2016
December 9, 2015 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – Canadian Society for Chemistry and the Chemical Institute of Canada have announced the names of award recipients for 2016. The Canadian Society for Chemistry award winners for 2016 are: Award for Research Excellence in Materials…
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Pittcon technical sessions to include food safety, bioanalytical science
December 9, 2015 by Lab Canada Pittsburgh, PA – With hot topics including food safety, bioanalytical science, and homeland security, Pittcon’s 2016 Technical Program will feature over 2,000 technical presentations offered in symposia, oral sessions, workshops, awards, and posters. The core of the technical program –…
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McGill University scientist wins top award for spinal cord injury research
November 25, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – A researcher from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre has received the 2015 Barbara Turnbull Award for Spinal Cord Research. This annual prize is supported through a partnership between the Barbara Turnbull Foundation, Brain…
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$15M supports industry-academic partnerships in Quebec
November 24, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Quebec’s minister of the economy, innovation and exports, Jacques Daoust, has announced a new collaboration with Mitacs to support the province’s innovation agenda, with $15 million in funding. The ministry is launching several initiatives that will stimulate…
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$300K project to unlock greener methods of producing heavy oil
November 23, 2015 by Lab Canada Saskatoon, SK – Ian Gates, professor and head of the Schulich School of Engineering’s chemical and petroleum department at the University of Calgary, is working with Innovation Saskatchewan and the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in a $303,000 project to develop…
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$17B takeover of Sigma-Aldrich boosts Merck’s presence in life sciences
November 18, 2015 by Lab Canada Darmstadt, Germany – Pharmaceutical and chemical giant Merck KGaA says it has completed a $17-billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich that will further its presence in the life sciences market. The completion follows last week’s approval from the European Commission, which…
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Crowd-source challenge to support cancer genome sequencing consortia
November 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – An international consortium of groups from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom have come together to create an innovative, cloud-based, public challenge to optimize the discovery of genetically distinct groups of cells within cancers that…
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Polanyi Prizes celebrate five outstanding Ontario researchers
November 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Today five researchers, from a number of Ontario’s leading universities, are being awarded the 2015 Polanyi Prize for advancements in research in their fields. “It is a great honour to be given the opportunity to recognize the…
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$3M funding supports colorectal cancer research
November 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Edmonton, AB – The Alberta Cancer Foundation is providing $3 million in funding for a colorectal research project to study methods for preventing tumours from repairing themselves after radiation treatment. Some tumours have strong DNA repair systems and can…
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Toronto Western Research Institute renamed the Krembil Research Institute
November 17, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – The research arm of Toronto Western Hospital, the Toronto Western Research Institute, has been renamed as the Krembil Research Institute in recognition of the long-standing support of the Krembil family, which is one of Canada’s leading investors…
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New $25,000 fund assists scientists wanting to hold conventions in Montreal
November 12, 2015 by Lab Canada Montréal, QC – Earlier this week, the Palais des congrès de Montréal, the Fonds de recherche du Québec and Chief Scientist Rémi Quirion brought together nearly 50 heads of research centres in Québec for a forum on promoting Québec research.…
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Commercial sea salt samples contaminated with microplastics
November 11, 2015 by Lab Canada Shanghai, China – Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, including fish and shellfish. Now scientists, after testing a sampling of commercial products…
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Sudbury Neutrino Observatory wins $3M Breakthrough Prize
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Queen’s University professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Arthur McDonald, representing the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) Collaboration, has received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The partnership received the prize at a ceremony and gala on Nov.…
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Food and beverage research gets boost in new facility
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – George Brown College has launched an applied research and industry facility with the goal of helping the food and beverage industry produce nutritious and innovative products for Canadian consumers. Toronto’s food and beverage sector is dominated…
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Ontario Genomics appoints new vice president, research
November 10, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Ontario Genomics has announced the appointment of Dr. Robin Harkness as vice president, Research. In this role, Dr. Harkness will support Ontario’s researchers, and their Canadian and international co-investigators from academia and industry, towards securing funding for…
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Michel Chrtien receives 2015 Wilder-Penfield Prix du Qubec
November 3, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Dr. Michel Chrétien, IRCM emeritus research professor and former scientific director of the institute, is receiving the 2015 Wilder-Penfield Prix du Québec. “Dr. Chrétien is an outstanding researcher known worldwide as the pioneer of the prohormone theory…
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Universit de Montral scientist wins the Lo-Pariseau Award
November 3, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Dr. Guy Sauvageau, principal investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal, professor in the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine and hematologist at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, has received the…
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Cancer research plagued by poor study design
October 20, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Poorly designed studies may lead to the efficacy of drugs being overestimated and money being wasted on trials that prove fruitless, according to new a study from McGill University. The findings, published last week in the open-source…
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University research income shrinks for first time in over a decade
October 15, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – For the first time in 14 years, combined university research income failed to grow last year. Research Infosource provided the information today in its annual ranking report, Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities. Research income at the top…
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Search for extraterrestrial life gets boost with $1M funding
October 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Université de Montréal researchers are determined to be the first to discover life elsewhere in the universe, a goal backed by $1 million in research grants donated by the Trottier Foundation. At the new Institute for Research…
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Machines have nothing on humans when it comes to listening
October 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – More than 99% of the time, two words are enough for people with normal hearing to distinguish the voice of a close friend or relative amongst other voices, according to the University of Montreal’s Julien Plante-Hébert. His…
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Cancer researcher wins 2015 Prix Michel-Sarrazin
October 14, 2015 by Lab Canada Montreal, QC – Claude Perreault, principal investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal, professor in the Department of Medicine at the University’s Faculty of Medicine and hematologist at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, is…
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Nobel Prize won by Queen’s professor emeritus
October 6, 2015 by Lab Canada Kingston, ON – Queen’s University professor emeritus Arthur McDonald is the co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics. The announcement, made Tuesday morning by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, said Dr. McDonald won the award, along with…
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Ontario Consulting Engineering Awards issue call for entries
October 6, 2015 by Lab Canada Toronto, ON – Consulting Engineers of Ontario has issued an invitation to its 200 member firms to submit entries for the 2016 Ontario Consulting Engineering Awards. Project entered must have been completed to the client’s satisfaction in the period from…
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$175,000 in prizes celebrate Canadian innovators
October 5, 2015 by Lab Canada Calgary, AB – The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation has announced the winners of its 2015 Innovation Awards and Young Canadian Innovator awards. The ten recipients will share $175,000 in prize money for successfully developing innovations that are improving the…
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$1.5M funding furthers nuclear imaging research
September 30, 2015 by Lab Canada Regina, SK – The University of Regina has received $1.475 million in funding from the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation. The funding will go toward the Fedoruk Chair in Nuclear Imaging Technologies and equipment. Dr. Aram Teymurazyan…
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International innovation prize celebrates light
September 23, 2015 by Lab Canada Ditzingen, Germany – The non-profit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung has issued a call for applications for the Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize, which honours inventions or technical developments in applied laser technology. Applications and nominations are being accepted through December 31.…
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Training videos assist in heating element installation, removal
September 23, 2015 by Lab Canada Denver, CO – Deltech Furnaces has made six tutorial videos covering heating element installation and replacement available on its recently upgraded website and on its You Tube channel. “Our customers will now have 24-7 access to helpful information and demonstrations…
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Leading scientists win Royal Society awards for 2015
September 21, 2015 by Lab Canada Ottawa, ON – The Royal Society of Canada’s Academy of Science has announced the recipients of its 2015 medals and awards, who are being recognized for their outstanding achievements in research and scholarship. The winners were recently announced – they…
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