Organization: National Research Council

NRC and TeraXion forge strategic partnership

The National Research Council‘s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre has entered a strategic partnership with Quebec City-based TeraXion Inc to develop and fabricate the firm’s new modulator products for optical components. Tera-Xion’s new modulator concept will use a proprietary design to achieve low-power consumption and high modulation speeds required for transmission speeds of 100 Gb/s and…

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…

Genome project explores potential of camelina

Genome Prairie has teamed with several other public funding entities to launch the Prairie Gold project to explore the potential for camelina as an industrial oil platform. Popular in Europe prior to the dominance of rapeseed and canola, project researchers recently completed the sequencing of the camelina genome and plan to explore its potential in…

Genome project explores potential of camelina

Genome Prairie has teamed with several other public funding entities to launch the Prairie Gold project to explore the potential for camelina as an industrial oil platform. Popular in Europe prior to the dominance of rapeseed and canola, project researchers recently completed the sequencing of the camelina genome and plan to explore its potential in…

New research data management group formed

Research Data Canada (RDC) has been formally launched. Led by the National Research Council‘s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, the multi-disciplinary group of universities, institutes, libraries, granting agencies, and individual researchers was created following a key recommendation of the 2011 Canadian Research Data Summit. Its role is to coordinate data management activities across…

NRC Aerospace unveils projects, seeks partners

The National Research Council (NRC) is at the Paris Air Show seeking partners for a new project to develop and test no-lead alternatives for aircraft that still burn leaded fuel — typically high-compression piston engines common in rural and northern regions. NRC Aerospace recently conducted the first civil flight using 100% biofuel, achieving a 50%…

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.…

CHRP announces latest round of projects

The Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program has awarded $19 million to 37 projects to assist researchers in interdisciplinary, patient-oriented collaborations between researchers in the fields of natural sciences , engineering and the health sciences. The program is a joint venture between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research…

Canada and Taiwan renew science MOU

The National Research Council (NRC) has renewed its memorandum of understanding with Taiwan’s National Science Council (NSC). The new five-year MOU builds upon 15 years of bilateral cooperation and features a more focused approach to research collaborations and includes projects in the areas of vaccines and biologics with a stronger emphasis on commercialization and products…

Second Canadian joins SKA organizational board

A second Canadian has been added to the organization board of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project which will determine the location of the massive installation in either Australia/New Zealand or South Africa. The Univ of Calgary‘s Dr Russ Taylor will join the board, along with fellow Canadian Dr Greg Fahlman representing the National Research…