/research/taxonomy/term/190/all en /research/article/future-ready-translation-trailblazer <p>As a boy in Jaffa, Israel, Nahum Sonenberg walked regularly with his father to the Old Protestant cemetery on a hill overlooking the harbour. His father showed him the gravestone of Thomas Hodgkin, the British pathologist who first described Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the 1800s. Sonenberg recalls them standing on the hilltop, looking over the Mediterranean: “I asked my father, what’s beyond the water? ‘That’s America,’ he said, ‘where everything is possible.’ I was only four and thought I should go there one day.”</p> Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:39:05 +0000 Mark Witten 717 at /research /research/channels/event/online-info-session-techaccel-program-fall-2024-358028 <h3>Come to the info session and learn about the program benefits, application process and much more! <a href="https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtceGrqDspGNCM5OKNq8k12wBjO3tj_jDN#/registration">Register Now!</a></h3> Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:12:05 +0000 admin 8359 at /research /research/channels/news/mcgill-and-innovobot-announce-deal-ramp-spinoff-creation-353147 <p><i>Agreement will accelerate the launch of tech-based companies</i></p> <p>ƻ����Ժ and Innovobot today announced they have reached an agreement to accelerate the commercialization of technologies based on research undertaken by ƻ����Ժ professors.</p> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:07:34 +0000 junji.nishihata@mcgill.ca 2264 at /research /research/channels/news/searching-next-google-launch-mcgill-innovation-fund-make-history-333734 <p><i>Fund will be one of Canada’s most significant university innovation programs awarding nearly $500k to spinoffs and technologies</i></p> <p>September 28, 2021 (MONTREAL, Quebec) – Today ƻ����Ժ announced the launch of the ƻ����Ժ Innovation Fund, a funding program that will support both the development of innovative technologies as well as the spinoff companies that emerge from the University. The fund will be open to all ƻ����Ժ members who have declared a Report of Invention to the Office of Innovation and Partnerships.</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:33:06 +0000 megan.liley@mcgill.ca 1293 at /research /research/channels/news/roman-szumski-appointed-special-advisor-vice-principal-research-and-innovation-336109 <p>Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation (VP-RI), is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Roman Szumski to the role of Special Advisor to the VP-RI in Public and Life Science Policy and Business Development. His appointment will commence on January 17, 2022 for a two-year term.</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:33:06 +0000 megan.liley@mcgill.ca 1307 at /research /research/channels/news/110m-nine-innovative-mcgill-research-projects-329218 <p>Read the story in the <a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/110m-for-nine-innovative-mcgill-research-projects/">ƻ����Ժ Reporter</a></p> <p>Read the ƻ����Ժ <a href="/newsroom/channels/news/110m-nine-innovative-mcgill-research-projects-329223">news release</a></p> <hr /><h2>Funded Projects:</h2> <h3> </h3> <h3><b><u>SecureData4Health</u></b></h3> <p><b>ƻ����Ժ team lead</b>: <a href="/qls/researchers/guillaume-bourque">Guillaume Bourque</a>, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:23:14 +0000 megan.liley@mcgill.ca 1259 at /research /research/channels/news/dr-ronald-lafreniere-appointed-managing-director-mcgills-cfref-program-healthy-brains-healthy-lives-266509 <p>In September 2016, the federal government made an unparalleled investment in research and innovation, announcing $84 million in funding over seven years for ƻ����Ժ’s Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives initiative, as part of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) program. Following this announcement, a committee for the selection of the HBHL Managing Director engaged in an extensive search and interview process. The Chair of the Selection Committee, Vice-Principal Rosie Goldstein, is now pleased to announce the appointment of Dr.</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:15:22 +0000 megan.liley@mcgill.ca 1133 at /research /research/channels/news/professor-sylvain-coulombe-appointed-associate-vice-principal-innovation-and-partnerships-289479 <p>September 1, 2018. </p> <p>Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation (R&I), is pleased to announce the appointment of Sylvain Coulombe as Associate Vice-Principal, Innovation and Partnerships, effective September 1, 2018, for a five-year term.</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:15:22 +0000 megan.liley@mcgill.ca 1144 at /research /research/channels/news/24-hours-innovation-226643 <h2>Consider it a cram session for change.</h2> <p>Starting at 9 a.m. on May 21 (in Montreal at least), some of the world’s brightest young thinkers will have one short day to create, develop, and pitch solutions to some of society’s stickiest problems. This is the <a href="http://24hinno.wordpress.com/">24h de l’Innovation</a> competition.</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:15:22 +0000 megan.liley@mcgill.ca 1106 at /research /research/channels/news/your-input-avp-innovation-and-partnerships-256849 <p><span>Dear Members of the ƻ����Ժ Community,</span></p> <p><span>We have embarked on the process of selecting an </span><strong>Associate Vice-Principal, Innovation and Partnerships</strong><span> in Research and International Relations. The search will be comprehensive in scope with an integral portion being a process of consultation.</span></p> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:15:22 +0000 megan.liley@mcgill.ca 1123 at /research /research/article/made-quebec-sky-limit-nanocrystals <p>“It’s like a Saturn V rocket, except it’s upside down.” Howard Fields is excited, and with good reason: things at <a href="http://anomera.ca">Anomera </a>are poised to takeoff, and in a big way.</p> <p>Anomera, for the uninitiated, is a small company based in Montreal with locations in Mississauga, Ontario and Témiscaming, Quebec. Anomera specializes in nanoparticles, specifically, carboxylated nanocrystalline cellulose, or CNCs for short. And while the company may be small, and the particles they sell much, much smaller, they are on the verge of big things. Very big things.</p> Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:01:18 +0000 Junji Nishihata 769 at /research /research/article/ip-partnership-program-help-researchers-partner-industry <p>The Office of Innovation and Partnerships (I+P) has launched the new I+P Partnership Program, thanks to funding recently provided to ƻ����Ժ by the Government of Quebec’s <i>Ministère de l’Education et de l’Enseignement Supérieur. </i>This new ƻ����Ժ program, with a total envelope of $450,000, seeks to encourage collaborations and the diffusion of innovation between ƻ����Ժ research teams and Quebec-based companies in all disciplines.</p> Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:15:47 +0000 Junji Nishihata 715 at /research /research/futurereadylaporte <p>Drug discovery is a high-stakes business. The cost of developing a new prescription medicine that gains marketing approval from regulators is about $3.5 billion – and 7 out of 8 new drug candidates in clinical development fail, according to a <i>Journal of Health Economics </i>study.</p> Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:57:33 +0000 Mark Witten 711 at /research /research/article/future-ready-graphene-innovators <p>What is a million times thinner than a human hair, yet 200 times stronger than steel? What is lighter than paper, yet stretches up to 20% of its length?</p> Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:40:03 +0000 Mark Witten 707 at /research /research/article/welcome-our-new-website <p>Our new site has taken flight. Some features of the new site include:</p> Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:26:23 +0000 Meaghan Thurston 696 at /research