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It was almost three years ago Jocelyn Holland found out she had full-blown celiac disease, so she scoured the dark crevices of the internet looking for any information about it. Holland, is one of many celiacs who felt overwhelmed looking for information about the autoimmune disease – that is, until My Healthy Gut was available […]

Montreal, QC — Mitacs’ Vice-President of Business Development, Josette-Renée Landry, was named to the Institutes Advisory Board (IAB) for Health Innovation for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The IAB for Health Innovation is one of five IABs introduced this summer to present advice to the CIHR’s institutes. It will advise on accelerating discovery, development, evaluation, […]

Ottawa, ON — Mitacs, a national non-profit research and training organization, announces a new pilot program, the Canadian Science Policy Fellowship, which sees PhD holders from all disciplines inform policy development, implementation, and/or evaluation in the Government of Canada’s departments and agencies. In partnership with the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy and […]

Montreal, QC — Mitacs partner Sigma Energy Storage was honoured last week at a ceremony in Montreal as the Canadian winner of the 2016 National Energy Globe Award. More than 170 countries participate in the National Energy Globe Awards, making it one of the world’s largest environmental prizes. The awards recognize projects that conserve resources or […]

Halifax, NS — Nova Scotia students will have more opportunity to further their studies in China, thanks to new scholarships. The Government and Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training organization, will fund five, $5,000 scholarships each year for the next three years. Premier Stephen McNeil announced the scholarships today, Sept. 12, while in Shandong […]

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a not-for-profit research and training organization in Canada, announced the winning entries in its annual photo contest, which documents the research experiences of its Globalink research internship program participants. Six photographs were chosen as winners in two categories. My research: Interns shared their Globalink research. First place Piyush Rai analyzed how […]

Brad Bennett recently ended his five-year tenure as Mitacs’ board chair. Having steered the organization through several key milestones and achievements, Brad possesses a particular insight into Mitacs’ success and unique position in Canada. In 2004, Brad was entering a six-year term on the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) board of governors.  Later that year, […]

Calgary, Alberta – Dr. Justine Dowd, a Mitacs researcher at the University of Calgary, has a strong gut feeling — and it’s a healthy one. For more than a year, Dowd has been working alongside Registered Dietitian Desiree Nielsen and WholeLife HealthTech CEO Darlene Higbee Clarkin to launch ‘My Healthy Gut,’ a first-of-its-kind app for […]

Halifax, NS — Tourism in Halifax is getting a boost this summer with the infusion of 19 Mitacs Globalink interns — some of the brightest young minds in the world. They’re helping to bolster the economy by spending time in local labs, focused on helping Halifax researchers make ground-breaking discoveries and form global connections in a […]

They are the best and the brightest from around the world, and an initiative to link them with the leading minds of academia can produce real-world results right here in Manitoba. A total of 565 interns through Mitacs Globalink program have been connected with university professors across Canada, with 35 of those students lending their […]

Here’s something that might be over your head: near-sentient drones shipping critical goods to remote Northern communities. University of Manitoba professor Witold Kinsner said it’s not only possible, but may be necessary, which is why he and a visiting intern from China are currently working on bringing the advanced auto-pilot necessary for the task to […]

Researchers at the University of Manitoba are developing drones to deliver food and supplies across vast distances in remote Manitoba. The research was supported by Mitacs Globalink.