Organization: Eureka

NRC’s IRAP promotes EUREKA at BioMarine event

The National Research Council (NRC) is using this week’s 4th BioMarine Business Convention in Halifax to publicize Canada’s associate member status in EUREKA, a 41-nation network that supports industry-driven R&D. Canada joined EUREKA last year through its Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) (R$, July 5/12). Canadians can seek IRAP assistance to participate in three types…

MDS partners to develop new medical imaging tracer

MDS Nordion is collaborating with two French firms to develop new positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers for cancer diagnostics using Gallium-68. The project between Guerbet (a pharmaceutical firm wholly dedicated to medical imaging) and Cyceron (a public research organization backed by several French research institutes) has the full support Eureka, an massive intergovernmental initiative aimed…