Organization: Univ of Saskatchewan

CDRD collaborates with Saskatchewan consortium

The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) has teamed with a consortium of Saskatchewan-based organizations to establish the CDRD-Saskatchewan Innovation Fund for accelerating the commercialization of health discoveries emanating from the province’s research institutions. CDRD is committing $1 million to be matched by a consortium comprised of the Univ of Saskatchewan‘s College of Pharmacy…

Researchers publish 1000th paper based on CLS data

The Canadian Light Source synchrotron is celebrating the 1000th peer-reviewed paper to be published based on data collected at the facility. The 1000th paper was authored by Univ of Saskatchewan researchers Courtney Phillips and Derek Peak along with CLS scientist Tom Regler using the facility’s spherical grating monochromator beamline. The paper is based on experiments…

CSA awards $6.2 million for space weather research

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded $6.2 million for 10 projects at five universities to study how space weather affects the ionosphere and its impacts on technology. The awards were made to the Univ of Alberta, Univ of Saskatchewan, Univ of New Brunswick, Univ of Calgary and Athabasca Univ. Funding comes from the CSA’s…

CCNI announces inaugural grants worth $1.5 million

Saskatoon’s Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) has unveiled its new grants program with awards worth $1.5 million. The Centre will provide $485,000 which leverages $773,000 in cash and in-kind from the five research teams at the Univ of Saskatchewan and Univ of Regina and partner organizations. The centre was renamed the Fedoruk Centre after…

Institutions to receive CERC chairs announced

The results of the first phase of the second smaller round of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) program have been announced with eight universities given the go-ahead to nominate world-renowned researchers to fill 11 chairs. The competition was announced in the 2011 federal Budget and launched last December, with 10 chairs worth $10 million…

Saskatchewan funds new centre for nuclear innovation

The Saskatchewan government is providing $30 million over seven years to launch the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) which was announced last spring as part of a multi-faceted strategy to boost the province’s capabilities in nuclear science and engineering (R$, March 17/11). CCNI will be located at the Univ of Saskatchewan, augmenting existing nuclear…

Partners invest $20M in livestock genomics research

Genome Alberta is leading a group of funding partners on two large-scale livestock genomics projects. A $12.4-million project led by researchers at the Univ of Alberta, Univ of Saskatchewan and PigGen Canada will use genomics to help reduce the impact of two of the most common diseases in commercial pig production — Porcine Circovirus Associated…

Bioniche opens animal vaccine production facility

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc has opened Canada’s largest livestock vaccine manufacturing facility using $25 million in repayable loans from the federal and Ontario government’s The Animal Health and Food Safety Vaccine Manufacturing Centre, located at the firm’s headquarters in Belleville ON, is a scale-up facility and the first milestone in a planned $100-million project (R$,…

Saskatchewan nuclear reactor proposal endorsed

The Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS) has unanimously endorsed a proposal to build a Canadian Neutron Source (CNS) at the Univ of Saskatchewan to support all types of materials research. The CNS would be complement the Canadian Light Source synchrotron. Last year, the provincial government responded to calls for proposals from Natural Resources Canada…

Light Source and India sign agreement

The Canadian Light Source and the Univ of Saskatchewan have signed a letter of intent with the Government of India. The pact could lead to joint research projects and Indian scientists visiting CLS as customers. India has its own synchrotron at the Raja Ramada Centre for Advanced Technology….