Organization: Dalhousie Univ

Hong Kong firm launches $50M VC fund in Nova Scotia

Hong Kong-based First Eastern Investment Group is creating a $50-million private venture capital fund in Nova Scotia. The company, headed by international investor Victor Chu, established the fund after matchmaking by Clearwater CEO John Risley who introduced Chu to provincial premier Stephen McNeil last year. The fund will not be sector specific and investments could…

Hong Kong firm launches $50M VC fund in Nova Scotia

Hong Kong-based First Eastern Investment Group is creating a $50-million private venture capital fund in Nova Scotia. The company, headed by international investor Victor Chu, established the fund after matchmaking by Clearwater CEO John Risley who introduced Chu to provincial premier Stephen McNeil last year. The fund will not be sector specific and investments could…

MEOPAR awards $3.5 million to seven projects

The Marine Environmental, Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) has awarded $3.5 million to seven projects that competed in its second open call for applications. The targeted basic research projects are led by universities and address issues such as fog ice, ship noise, radioactivity, whale-ship collisions, storms and tsunamis. The successful projects’ lead investigators are…

Dalhousie and Ber-Gurion universities sign MOU

Dalhousie Univ has signed a new memorandum of understanding with Israel’s Ben Gurion Univ as the first step in the creation of an Ocean Studies Centre in the City of Eliat, home to the Interuniversity Institute in Marine Science. The MOU will facilitate pure and applied joint research projects, co-supervision of doctoral students, industry research…

CDRD establishes Atlantic Research Node

Vancouver-based Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) has established the first in a proposed pan-Canadian network of research nodes with an agreement to collaborate with Dalhousie Univ and the IWK Health Centre, both in Halifax. The CDRD Atlantic Research Node will initially be focused on zebrafish models of disease and leverage the research of…

Dal and Helmholtz offer ocean science grad positions

The Dalhousie Univ-based Transatlantic Ocean System Science and Technology (TOSST) program is establishing a joint graduate research school in collaboration with the Helmholtz School for Ocean System Science and Technology (HOSST), beginning this fall. TOSST is receiving $1.6 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council‘s Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE), while…

Dal and Helmholtz offer ocean science grad positions

The Dalhousie Univ-based Transatlantic Ocean System Science and Technology (TOSST) program is establishing a joint graduate research school in collaboration with the Helmholtz School for Ocean System Science and Technology (HOSST), beginning this fall. TOSST is receiving $1.6 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council‘s Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE), while…

Dalhousie opens big data analytics institute

Dalhousie Univ has officially launch the Institute for Big Data Analytics, Canada’s first academic research unit dedicated to expanding knowledge in the field, and partnering with industry across a range of sectors. The institute will be directed by Dr Stan Matwin, a Canada Research Chair holder in Visual Analytics. Big data analytics is a rapidly…

Joint effort saves Halifax medical imaging laboratory

A combined effort between Dalhousie Univ, the Government of Nova Scotia and biotech firms has raised $3 million to continue operations of a medical devices laboratory targeted for closure last year by the National Research Council last year. The lab — renamed the Biomedical Translational Imaging Centre or BIOTIC — has a staff of 13.…

New KM Networks

Three networks will each receive $1.6 million over four years under the Knowledge Mobilization program. The winners are: Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids Network, led by scientific director Dr Terry Klassen, Univ of Manitoba; Children and Youth in Challenging Contexts Network, led by scientific director Dr. Michael Ungar, Dalhousie Univ; and, Promoting Relationships and Eliminating…