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Canadian Innovation in Medical Imaging is …

WEBCanada is a researCh leader in mediCal imaging. Medical imaging has transformed the way health care professionals diagnose and treat medical conditions. Technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) scans and positron emission tomography (PET) scans are among the several types of imaging that have …

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Seeing mental health and addiction differently

WEBMAIN IMAGE: Faranak Farzan (standing) and grad student, Raaj Chatterjee demonstrate non-invasive brain mapping technologies in the eBrain Lab at Simon Fraser University.These include transcranial magnetic stimulation (blue machine in background and black coil Farzan is holding to Chatterjee’s head), and a neuro-navigational device …

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Improving patient care in complex times

WEBA new Canadian lab is developing instructional methods for training healthcare providers to be nimbler in ever-changing circumstances. A success story from a lab funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Read the full story.

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The Centre for Phenogenomics (TCP)

WEBThe Centre for Phenogenomics conducts and enables groundbreaking research and discovery, with the goal of advancing human health. Our facilities and our ability to generate, hold, analyze, archive and distribute a critical mass of mouse models are integrated under one roof to enable the best science supported by the best infrastructure …

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Brain Health Imaging Centre

WEBThe Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Brain Health Imaging Centre is one of the few brain-imaging facilities that is fully dedicated to research on mental illness and addictions, offering both Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) and MRI imaging. In the past 20 years, CAMH PET research has yielded major discoveries that have been …

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Centre for Integrated and Advanced Medical Imaging …

WEBCreated by a partnership between Mohawk College and McMaster University, the Centre for Integrated and Advanced Medical Imaging (CIAMI) is the site for continuing research, with access to innovative technologies and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable cutting-edge discoveries. CIAMI brings technology and healthcare together in

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Earlier and better treatments for healthier kids

WEBAs a senior scientist at SickKids in Toronto, Martin Post knows that the earlier doctors can detect and treat diseases in children, the better the chance those children will enjoy long, healthy lives.. The hospital’s new CFI-funded Centre for Advanced Pediatric Imaging and Therapy of Obesity and Lung (CAPITOL) will help make that possible with …

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Simulation and Digital Health Facility

WEBCognitive health technologies: interactive immersive simulation, neuropsychology-based instructional design, neuro/bio sensing and human-computer interface. Biomedical data intelligence: applied biomedical data science, human-like virtual assistants. Bio-mechatronics: real-time interactive biomechanical models, modelling of manipulative

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Canada joins global effort to prevent pandemic

WEBOTTAWA, ONTARIO — Canada’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) is participating in the global research and development efforts against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) being coordinated by the World Health Organization. This world-class institute at the University of Saskatchewan …

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MEDIC – mHealth and eHealth Development and …

WEBMEDIC’s Digital Health User Experience Lab, the only one of its kind in southern Ontario, supports MEDIC’s usability research team to offer customized user-testing and validation of new and existing products and solutions. Through MEDIC, healthcare organizations and vendors can access a working ehealth ecosystem, the eHealth Ontario

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Making medical imaging more accessible with better molecules

WEBMedical imaging often relies on radioactive substances, but those can be expensive and they come with challenges in terms of logistics and availability.

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Mobile Research Laboratory

WEBAs Canada’s only mobile research lab dedicated to studying mental illness and addictions, the Mobile Research Laboratory is equipped to conduct biological, behavioural and social research, with wet lab facilities, interview rooms and workstations. As it is typically stationed in small communities for several months at a time, the lab enables

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How healing happens Canada Foundation for Innovation

WEBBy understanding how muscle tissue repairs itself, Adam Johnston at the University of Prince Edward Island hopes to find ways to combat aging and improve athletic performance

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Clinical Research Centre

WEBThe Clinical Research Centre of the Centre for the Study of Complex Childhood Diseases is a specialized clinical research facility designed for research studies of both healthy children (and adults) and those with long-term health issues and/or disabilities. To ensure the safety of research subjects, the centre is staffed with skilled and

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PART XIII: It keeps us healthy Canada Foundation for Innovation

WEBCanada is experiencing an unprecedented change in its population; over the next two decades nearly a quarter of us will be over 65. To understand the complex interplay between the physical, social and psychological health of aging Canadians, and how this shift will impact the country’s policies and economy, more than 100 researchers from 26 …

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The power to transform Canada Foundation for Innovation

WEBThe power to transform. Learn how the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Innovation Fund provides the foundation for world-class, impactful research that is made in Canada and has the power to transform. A collection of stories from labs funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

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Animal Resources Centre

WEBAreas of expertise. We offer a wide range of services to support clients who use animal models for biomedical research in human diseases. We are one of Canada’s largest centres, with more than 100,000 sq. ft. of world-class accredited facility space spanning multiple sites. Our professional staff has experience with multi-species models and

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Genetic sleuthing Canada Foundation for Innovation

WEBA new lab at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) aims to paint the most detailed genetic picture in the world of Quebec’s French Canadian population since that population’s founding. The TRACES lab will be equipped to not only extract and analyze modern DNA (from tissue samples provided by individuals), but also from ancient DNA …

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Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit (HEPRU)

WEBHuman whole-body calorimetry, assessment of human-system function in different environments, evaluation of human performance and health in adverse environments, defining exposure limits for work performed in harsh environments, assessment of heat tolerance in vulnerable populations, evaluation of the thermal characteristics of …

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High Pressure Processing Facility

WEBThe High Pressure Processing Facility (located within the Bureau of Microbial Hazards (BMH), Food Directorate) provides equipment and facilities for experiments on the response of foodborne pathogens to high pressure processing. Two experimental high pressure processing units are available with 1 litre or 2.2 mL pressure vessels.

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Research is built by my Indigenous community

WEBThings are busy back at the Indigenous Health Law Centre at Brandon University. The centre was established by Boyer in 2014, with the university providing space and the Canada Foundation for Innovation supplying computers, desks, cabinets and other office equipment as well as a comfortably furnished living room.

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