Northern Ontario Business: Lakehead medical researcher is an innovation star

A Lakehead University postdoctoral fellow has been nationally recognized for his innovative “breakthrough” technology in breast cancer detection. At a Nov. 26 ceremony in Ottawa, Thunder Bay’s Oleksandr Bubon received an outstanding commercialization award from Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that promotes innovation by solving business challenges through academic research. While studying under Canada Research Chair, Professor and Senior […]

THUNDER BAY — His development of a low-dose radiation breast imaging device has won recognition for Lakehead University researcher Oleksandr Bubon. Bubon will receive an award Tuesday in Ottawa from Mitacs, a national not-for-profit organization that’s supported research projects and delivered training programs since 1999. It’s funded by the federal government and provincial governments, and works with more […]

HALIFAX, N.S. — Boring is best when it comes to cigarette packaging, a Halifax researcher has concluded. Mohammed Al-Hamdani worked with 50 smokers using eye-tracking technology and tests that measured the motivation to smoke. He found that plain cigarette packaging not only increases attention to health warnings for all smokers, it also deters some smokers’ desire […]

“The walleye species is the number one sport fish in the northern U.S. and Canada,” says John Grace owner of the Old Post Lodge, noting that the livelihood of fishing lodges — which are big business in Northern Ontario — depends on maintaining a healthy walleye population. “If we weren’t stocking the walleye and continually […]

A field test would help producers, but research was required. Eloy Jose Torres Garcia, a senior Fanshawe College undergraduate and Mitacs intern, led a team of researchers at Fanshawe and Agriculture Agri-Food Canada with the mission to solve this age-old problem. “Buddy wastes time, fuel, and money,” says Eloy Jose, a Colombian microbiologist and biotech […]

The annual cost of buddy, which the Ontario Maple Syrup Producer’s Association (OMSPA) estimates can reach into the millions, is a lot of liquid gold for small producers who are forced to sell buddy product at highly reduced rates. This summer, Eloy Jose Torres Garcia, a senior Fanshawe College undergraduate and Mitacs intern, led a […]

Mitacs is pleased to announce a new agreement with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which has now officially launched as the UK-Canada Globalink Doctoral Exchange. In collaboration with the Mitacs Globalink program as the platform, the integration of Mitacs programs with the research excellence of UKRI ensures that, to date, this will become the largest […]

Ottawa, ON and Victoria, BC  This Fall 2019, 17 researchers begin year-long placements in the federal government and two provincial governments, harnessing their research expertise for the development of policy-based decisions on key issues across Canada. With robust expertise ranging from environmental protection to mental health, the 2019-2020 cohort of the Mitacs Canadian Science Policy […]

Vancouver, BC Mitacs will partner with the Vector Institute for artificial intelligence to rapidly connect machine learning students to employers in Canada. Given the exceptional and urgent demand for machine learning talent, students and postdoctoral fellows in the field will have their internship funding requests accelerated. This will shorten the review period and allow students […]

Turns out London researchers have a solution and a London-based company is key to it. Researchers at Western University have discovered adding a thin layer of carbon to rechargeable batteries can boost their life by up to 50 per cent, and the physicist working at 3M Canada’s London facility developed that coating. “The performance right […]

A Fanshawe College undergraduate student is researching ways to stop a mysterious and “horrible” flavour maple syrup producers refer to as “buddy” – which tastes and smells like a burnt Tootsie Roll – from making its way into late-season maple syrup. While the phenomenon usually occurs toward the end of the maple sugar season, if […]

The award is being presented by Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that fosters growth and innovation in Canada for business and academia. Working with professor Sherry Stewart in Dalhousie’s departments of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience, as well as the Lung Association of Nova Scotia, Dr. Mohammed Al-Hamdani’s work found that Health Canada’s format for plain cigarette […]