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The Ontario government has awarded $7.3 million to 10 companies and individuals as part of the 2008 Premier’s Award for Innovation. Awards in three categories were presented April 30 at a gala event in Toronto’s MaRS Centre.

The selection of Toronto’s as the global and data headquarters for an ambitious $1-billion global genome consortium to combat cancer promises to dramatically increase the city’s life sciences activity and profile, says the researcher who led the effort to attract the initiative to the region.

A new consortium created to bring critical yet commercially promising vaccines to market is bolstering Saskatoon’s growing reputation as a global powerhouse for human and animal vaccine development. Supported by the federal Centres of Excellence in Commercialization and Research (CECR) program, the Pan-Provincial Vaccine Enterprise (PREVENT) intends to draw on vaccine research strengths from at least three organizations

In-kind support of $10.

Dr John Challis is taking the helm at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) where his first task will be to oversee ongoing negotiations with the British Columbia government to secure a stable and sustainable funding base for the seven-year-old organization.

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Toronto is the new home and data centre for the International Cancer Genome Project (ICGC) — a massive new undertaking that could generate 25,000 more data than the Human Genome Project. The secretariat for the ICGC executive committee will be housed at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) in Toronto.

A national consortium led by the MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) has won the competition to manage the NCE’s Industrial Research and Development Internship (IRDI) pilot program with $8.64 million in funding.

Initial two-year term

After 14 years in the bureaucracy of Ottawa, Dr Arthur Carty is returning to his roots. The former president of the National Research Council (NRC) and national science advisor has been tagged to head up the new Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) as its executive director for an initial two-year term.

Model may be applied to other technologies

Five nanotechnology research projects will receive approximately $3 million each after being selected as part of a new collaboration between three government-funded agencies.