Organization: Univ of Victoria

BioMark to collaborate with U of A metabolomics centre

Vancouver’s BioMark Diagnostics Inc has received an Engage partnership grant to collaborate with The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC) at the University of Alberta to research, validate and establish new biomarkers for metabolomic tests with clinical and diagnostic applications. TMIC is a Genome Canada-funded Science & Technology Innovation Centre that builds on metabolics expertise at the…

MEOPAR awards $3.5 million to seven projects

The Marine Environmental, Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) has awarded $3.5 million to seven projects that competed in its second open call for applications. The targeted basic research projects are led by universities and address issues such as fog ice, ship noise, radioactivity, whale-ship collisions, storms and tsunamis. The successful projects’ lead investigators are…

CLS joins Composites Research Network

The Saskatoon-based Canadian Light Source has joined the Composites Research Network (CRN) — a western Canadian-based organization supporting the composites industry. The network is led by the Univ of British Columbia which was awarded $9.8 million in early 2012 from Western Economic Diversification Canada. CRN has nodes at UBC, UBC-Okanagan, Univ of Victoria, Univ of…

Research team seeks to extend fuel cell membranes

A research team funded by Automotive Partnerships Canada (APC) working to improve durability in fuel cell-powered buses has discovered a link between electrode degradation process and membrane durability. The finding will allow research partner Ballard Power Systems to include the advances in the chemistry to be engineered and implemented into improved membrane lifetimes for its…

Green hybrid-power research vessel runs aground

The Univ of Victoria assembled $20.5 million to develop a hybrid green ship only to scuttle the project in July when the bids for the retrofit for a former coast guard vessel came in about 40% higher than expected. Primary funders of the research project are Canada Foundation for Innovation, BC Knowledge Development Fund and…

UVic receives WD funding to develop unmanned air vehicles

The Univ of Victoria has received $671,500 from Western Economic Diversification to conduct R&D on unmanned air vehicles (UAV) at its new Centre for Aerospace Research. UVic researchers intend to produce a family of airframe prototypes from the ground up through conceptualization and design to manufacture. The prototypes can be customized for research and commercial…

WD provides funds for mass spectrometers at UVic

The Univ of Victoria has the highest concentration of mass spectrometers of any Canadian university following the purchase of two new units with support from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD). The equipment was purchased for the UVic-Genome BC Proteomics Centre with $663,000 in WD funding, which also includes the cost of a hiring a technician,…

BCKDF provides UVic with $13.3M for ocean research

The Government of British Columbia is providing $13.3 million for ocean research at the Univ of Victoria for the refitting of and the research vessel Tsekoa II and an expansion of the VENUS undersea sensor network. The BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) will provide $8.9 million towards the refitting of the former Coast Guard vessel,…

ICT mentoring program launched in BC

A new hands-on mentoring program for information and communication technology (ICT) has received nearly $2.9 million to strengthen technology commercialization in British Columbia The Technology Commercialization and Graduate Entrepreneurship Foundation — also known as The Alacrity Foundation — received $2.5 million from the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia through the Western…

CANARIE upgrades network, funds new projects.

CANARIE Inc has announced a critical upgrade of its national research network that will dramatically increase network capacity 10-fold. The upgrade was achieved with the installation of ethernet routers from Juniper Network Inc, Sunnyvale CA, allowing researchers to exchange and analyze large data volumes more quickly. The upgrade was unveiled at CANARIE’s Summit 09 conference…