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OCRI Announces Call for Nominations for 2010 OCRI Awards
2010 OCRI Awards now accepting nominations. Deadline to apply is December 4 2009. PLEASE NOTE: Life Science and cleantech companies are eligible for all award categories. The Health Innovation and Research awards have been carried over from the Life Sciences Awards. We encourage all life science and cleantech companies to browse the available award categories [...]
Invitation to join the Canadian Mission to China Yangling Agricultural Hi-Tech Fair (CAF) 2009
Location: Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China Date: 1st-5th November, 2009 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTPCanada), Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) and Canada China Business Council (CCBC) are pleased to invite Canadian companies and researchers to join the technology and business partnering mission to the most comprehensive annual [...]
Healthcare mission to East China
Attn:Canadian companies The Canadian Consulate General in Shanghai (China) and the Canadian Provincial Governments are jointly organizing a healthcare mission to East China. The program dates are arranged in conjunction with the opening of a new Canadian Trade Office in Nanjing (a major city near Shanghai), and a local Chinese new drug discovery conference IDDST [...]
Doing Business in China Session – Wednesday September 16, 2009
OCRI Global Marketing in partnership with Export Development Canada (EDC), Telfer School of Management and the Hong Kong Canada Business Association (HKCBA) invites you to join our Doing Business in China: Clean Technology breakfast seminar on September 16, 2009. Clean technology companies will be able to get a better understanding of the current economic climate [...]
Call for Papers: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference — Science and Technology for Humanity
Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 27 – 29, 2009 http://www.TIC-STH2009.org The TIC-STH conference is an international forum for state-of-the-art research across a broad spectrum of the IEEE science and technology fields of interest. The format of the conference is several parallel Symposia focusing on the advanced scientific and technological problems, especially of the interdisciplinary [...]
Innovative Carleton researcher in running for award
(Ottawa) – Post-doctoral fellow Sonia Chiasson is vying to take top honours in the student researcher category at the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) Awards on April 8 for her PhD research focused on online security. If she is successful, it would be Carleton’s sixth consecutive win in this category. More…
$2.4 million to develop stem cell therapies to reverse blindness
Leading vision researchers from across Canada are embarking on a five-year, $2.4 million collaborative project to develop stem cell therapies to reverse blindness. Canada’s largest private charity for vision research, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, is partnering with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to fund the program. The research team includes seven principal scientists led [...]