Mitacs pre-budget submission outlines opportunities for R&D investment

VANCOUVER — In response to pre-budget consultations for the Government of Canada’s Budget 2015, Mitacs provided a submission that recognizes the critical links between skills training, research and development (R&D), and innovation.   Mitacs’s submission identifies areas where Canada can leverage its excellent research talent pool to improve innovation performance. Specifically, Mitacs makes recommendations to increase […]

VANCOUVER — Mitacs and Inria formalized a partnership to support two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and at eight Inria Research Centres in France. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Mitacs — a Canadian not-for-profit organization that connects university-based researchers with businesses and government — and Inria, the French […]

Canada’s borders are safer thanks to the groundbreaking work of an up-and-coming Ottawa researcher who is being recognized for his contributions to developing a first-of-its-kind innovation that is helping aerial surveillance missions in Canada operate more efficiently and accurately. Rafael Falcon, who graduated with a PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science […]

A University of Ottawa PhD graduate who spearheaded the development of unique mission planning software the Department of National Defence purchased to secure Canada’s borders will be given a special award Tuesday. Rafael Falcon spent two years as an intern at Mitacs working on the technology called Risk Management Framework (RMF), which he says is […]

A passion for math runs deep in Arvind Gupta, the University of B.C.’s new president. His mother was a math professor in India before the family moved to Canada. One of his daughters is a math teacher in Toronto. When he was a boy, his mother gave him math puzzles to solve for fun, a […]

Toronto — Proteocyte Diagnostics Inc. of Toronto announced their collaboration with Mitacs Accelerate to conduct an economic evaluation of its predictive technology for the early detection of oral cancer. “We’ve partnered with Mitacs before with great success,” said Dr. Mario Thomas, Chief Commercialization Officer of Proteocyte Diagnostics. “The intent of this study is to show the value […]

Ottawa — Tunisia and Mitacs, a Canadian not-for-profit research and training organization, signed a letter of intent with a view to working together in promoting research exchanges between the two countries. The agreementwas signed by Tunisian Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and ICT, Tawfik Jelassi and Mitacs interim CEO and Scientific Director, Rob Annan. The […]

Since arriving in Calgary in June, Chinese university student Hao Wang has immersed himself in Canadian culture while helping research new ways for the visually impaired to navigate the world around them. Wang, from Chonqing, was one of 41 international undergraduate students chosen to spend their summer at the University of Calgary as part of […]

Mitacs Accelerate, an innovative internship program, draws on student expertise to help companies develop products and bring them to market faster. Sherbrooke businesses are accelerating their opportunities for growth by tapping into the expertise of local graduate students, thanks to the success of this internship program.   Since 2008, Quebec companies have invested nearly $14 million […]

For Mexican student Paulina Ramirez, summer at the University of Victoria offered many surprises: nearby woodland walks, trips to the beach and clean air by the lungful. These sorts of natural experiences were all very different from 25-year-old Ramirez’s life in Mexico City. But UVic research methods were also a huge revelation for the fourth-year […]

Chau Nguyen thinks of the people in remote Vietnamese villages who must travel half a day by bike, train or bus to get to a doctor because their local clinics don’t even have a nurse. She hopes the work she does this summer, helping University of Saskatchewan researcher Anh Dinh develop a blood pressure monitor […]