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• Major Investment to Strengthen Capacity for Hospital-Based Research in Ottawa

  - 2008-08-21

  The Canada Foundation for Innovation CFI announced today support for large-scale research infrastructure, under its Research Hospital Fund RHF, to support a collaborative project to develop new therapies and innovative approaches for improving health at Ottawa's research hospitals. The project is a partnership between the Ottawa Health Research Institute (research...

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• The First Step Towards an Inuit Graduate Program: Inuit Health Research and Planning Summer Institute in August 2007.

  - 2007-05-29

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 29, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- The first Inuit summer institute on health research methods and planning will be held at the University of Ottawa from August 13-31, 2007. This launches an Inuit graduate program on health research, which will eventually include an...

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• Canada Council for the Arts: J. Richard Bond, Robert Hancock, Roderick Macdonald, Shana Poplack and A.P.S. Selvadurai to Receive $100,000 Killam Prizes for 2007.

  - 2007-03-27

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Mar 27, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Five prominent researchers from the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, McGill University and the University of Ottawa will be honoured with the 2007 Killam Prizes, Canada's most distinguished annual awards for outstanding career achievements...

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• A Magnet for the Nation: NRC Houses Canada's Most Powerful Magnet.

  - 2006-06-01

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jun 1, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Today, the Government of Canada in partnership with the University of Ottawa and the provinces of Quebec and Ontario officially opened the $15 million NRC W.G. Schneider Building. Named after nuclear magnetic resonance NMR pioneer and...

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• Slovak Republic. A Decade of Independence (1993-2002), The

  - 2005-03-01

  M. Mark Stolarik, ed. The Slovak Republic. A Decade of Independence (1993-2002). Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004. xiv, 168 pp. Index. $15.00, paper.A decade in the life of a new state is certainly worth a celebration, but above all a good scholarly examination, especially when the inhabitants of this state...

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• Macadamian Technologies Announces Partnership with University of Ottawa to Build Software Infrastructure for Bioinformatics and Cryptography Grid Computing Lab.

  - 2003-05-29

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA, May 29, 2003 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Macadamian Technologies, Inc., a software engineering firm that focuses on emerging technologies, announced today that it was chosen to help build a grid computing infrastructure for the bioinformatics, coding, cryptology, and combinatorial algorithms lab at...

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• Ottawa Health Research Institute: $2.8-Million Nationwide Program Aims to Improve Infertility Treatments.

  - 2003-03-03

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Mar 3, 2003 CCNMatthews via COMTEX The largest Canadian research collaboration ever to tackle the problem of human egg health, has just been launched, thanks to a $2.8 million, five-year grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Led by Program Director...

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• Media Advisory: The Hottest & The Coolest Lifestyle Products in The Region!

  - 2002-02-12

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 12, 2002 On Wednesday, February 13th invited guests will spend an evening with Ottawa's top luxury lifestyle retailers to celebrate the hottest and coolest lifestyle products the Ottawa region has to offer. This very exclusive evening will take place...

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• Cystic Fibrosis Patients May Benefit from Important Trial of Antibiotics, New test shows meropenem plus tobramycin outperforms 11 other antibiotic combos.

  - 2000-11-07

  OTTAWA, Nov 07, 2000 Hospitals in Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver are collaborating on a clinical trial that could help cystic fibrosis patients who contract deadly bacteria infections recover quickly and stay well longer. "Fifty per cent of patients with cystic...

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• New Pneumonia/Meningitis Vaccine Leads to First Canada-Cuba Joint Biotechnology Patent.

  - 2000-04-01

  A new vaccine against pneumonia and arthritis has been discovered by University of Ottawa and University of Havana researchers after ten years of work. The vaccine will likely save the lives of thousands of children in developing countries. The vaccine attacks the Type b...

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