Organization: National Research Council

ProMetic strikes Brazilian licensing deal

Montreal’s ProMetic Life Sciences Inc has entered into a technology transfer and licensing agreement with Brazil’s Tecpar for the manufacture of a complex biopharmaceutical product for the South American market. The agreement combines a proprietary manufacturing process licensed from the National Research Council‘s Biotechnology Research Institute and ProMetic’s bioseparation process using Mimetic Legand technology. Prometic…

Xerox and NINT team for collaborative research

The Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) and the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) have entered a multi-year research collaboration to develop nanotechnology-based R&D with commercial potential. Billed as Canada’s first private-public nanotech research partnership, the collaboration will see the partners devote $4.5 million over three years to develop research teams that will establish targeted…

Group IV to develop solid state light bulb

Group IV Semiconductor Inc is developing a silicon-based light bulb that uses 90% less energy than incandescent bulbs and lasts 20 years. The Ottawa-based firm launched the $9.1-million, three year project with $2.1 million in assistance from Sustainable Development Technologies Canada and $2.5 million from the EnCana Environmental Innovation Fund, with the remainder coming from…

NRC opens world’s first 900MHz NMR for solids

The National Research Council (NRC) officially opened a new $15-million National Ultrahigh Field NMR Facility for Solids in conjunction with the Univ of Ottawa. The facility – in operation since last September – is located on NRC’s Montreal Road campus in Ottawa and will be jointly operated by the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences and…

PainCeptor receives IRAP assistance

PainCeptor Pharma Corp has received $480,000 in funding from the Industrial Research Assistance Program to further develop its drug development program for pain-related conditions such as arthritis and cancer. The contribution agreement will be used to advance PainCeptor’s R&D for the design and synthesis of low molecular weight compounds as part of its ASIC 3…

TRRA receives $2.3 million in Industry Canada assistance

The Toronto Region Research Alliance (TRRA) has received $2.3 million over three years from Industry Canada. The funding will help TRRA in its role of aligning, mobilizing and exploiting the Greater Toronto region’s research capacity. TRRA is co-chaired by Dr John Evans, chair of Torstar, and the MaRS Discovery District and Gord Nixon, president and…

NSERC opens first regional office in Moncton

Science and Engineering Research Canada (NSERC) has opened the first of five planned regional offices to provide the granting agency with a direct presence in Atlantic Canada. Dr Yves Gagnon has been seconded from the Univ of Moncton to lead the Moncton NB office, which is co-located with the National Research Council in Parc Scientifique…

NRC commercialization centres re-announced

Industry Canada is re-announcing six National Research Council (NRC) commercialization centres and is positioning some of them as new models for public-private partnership. Funding comes from a variety of federal sources including the NRC itself and Industry Canada’s regional economic development agencies. The centres are: Aluminium Technology Centre in Chicoutimi ($57 million), Photonics Fabrication Centre…

Laborium signs pact with NRC’s BRI

Laborium Biopharma Inc and the National Research Council’s Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) have entered a strategic alliance to provide services for the manufacturing and packaging of clinical lots of biological products according to cGMP standards. The alliance is part of a larger initiative to develop a cGMP biomanufacturing and training centre around BRI expertise and…

EMS receives CSA contract for new generation telescope

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a $5-million contract to EMS Technologies’ Space and Technology Group, Ottawa, for a key component of the $1.5-billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). EMS will design a fine guidance laser in partnership with COM DEV, Cambridge ON, allowing the JWST to measure positions of faint stars with considerable…