NRC and CIHR strike collaborative partnership

The National Research Council (NRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are collaborating to create the NRC/CIHR Science and Technology Health Innovation Partnership. The initiative will fund three health research projects worth $3.1 million over the next three years: Laval Univ and NRC’s Industrial Materials Institute will conduct research into the convergence between biology and soft nanofabrication; the Univ of Western Ontario and the NRC’s Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute to undertake a project to create new materials for hip replacements; and, the Univ of Manitoba and NRC’s Institute of Biodiagnostics will study non-invasive detection of cardiac diseases (ischemia and infarction) using near-infrared, thermal and magnetic resonance imaging technology....