Organization: Queen's Univ

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…

Bayer joins GreenCentre Canada as sponsor

The MaterialScience division of Bayer Inc has signed on to GreenCentre Canada (GCC) as its ninth industrial sponsor. Bayer’s sponsorship gives the Canadian branch of the multinational Bayer AG one-stop access to green chemistry discoveries submitted to GCC and allows it to take part in assessing new technologies and providing development advice. With core funding…

QS ranking includes 10 Canadian universities

McGill Univ is the top ranked of 10 Canadian university that were placed in the latest world university ranking by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a UK-based student services firm. McGill ranked 19th in the 2010 ranking of 400 institutions and was one of four that placed in the top 100 ahead of the Univ of Toronto…

New $5-million software engineering chair at Queen’s

Queen’s Univ will be home to a new $5-million Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering of Large-Scale Systems The funding comes from Research in Motion Ltd and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The chair will seek ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of software integration across multiple systems. RIM and NSERC already…

TRIUMF adds three new members

Three more universities have gained full membership at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. York Univ, Queen’s Univ and the Univ of Guelph now have a voice in setting

IBM and OCE launch cloud computing pilot

IBM, the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and several Ontario-based universities and health institutes are participating in a pilot project to deliver anywhere, anytime access to IBM’s proprietary business software via cloud computing – an emerging compute model for delivering and consuming information technology capabilities as a service. The software — IBM’s WebSphere Integration Developer…

New tri-university neuroscience network created

The Ontario-based universities have come together to establish the Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet), a neuroscience research initiative focused on the brain’s control of human movement and perception and how disease and injury can disrupt these functions. The network combines the York Centre for Vision Research at York Univ, the Group for Action and…

PARTEQ pushing for network of research universities

The loss of research funding from a major chemical company has prompted PARTEQ – the tech transfer arm of Queen’s Univ – to try and establish an alliance of Canadian universities to pursue major research funding from industry. PARTEQ has launched a pilot project to pursue chemical research funding and doesn’t expect other institutions to…

Ontario Research Fund announces new investments

The Ontario government has announced $45 million for five major research projects as part of $115 million in investments approved under the first round of the Ontario Research Fund‘s Research Excellence Program (ORF-REP). The REP funds typically cover one third of project costs led by provincial universities. The new investments are: Ontario BioCar Initiative, Univ…

Cytochroma Inc raises additional $21 million in VC

Privately held Cytochroma Inc, Markham ON, has received $21 million in venture capital financing to expand the development of potential products for vitamin D deficiency and other diseases related to chronic kidney disease. The latest funding brings the total raised since 2001 to $58 million and follows last year’s acquisition of Madison WI-based Proventiv Therapeutics…