Canadian researchers will share funding for seven projects exploring alternative uses for oil sands bitumen, from nanostructured materials to road construction asphalt.
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Lockheed Martin invests US$4M in University of Alberta spinoff company
University of Alberta spinoff firm Forge Hydrocarbons lands US$4-million investment by aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
Ottawa invests $2.5 million in AI supercomputing hub at University of Alberta
The University of Alberta will create an AI supercomputing hub, with a $2.5-million investment from Western Economic Diversification.
University of Alberta opens venture space for commercializing health innovation
The University of Alberta has opened a $2.3 million venture hub called TEC Centre Labs that aims to help scientists and researchers commercialize their discoveries. Located in downtown Edmonton, the facility encompasses 8,000 square feet of wet lab and collaboration space, and houses two accelerator programs: the UAlberta Health Accelerator, which concentrates on assisting researchers…
Team Alberta lobbies Ottawa for fair share of research funding
Alberta politicians and the leaders of the province’s three universities recently visited Ottawa to lobby for a fair share of federal research funding…
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…
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…