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Canada Foundation for Innovation
by Canada Foundation for Innovation
Since 1997, the Canada Foundation for Innovation has invested in infrastructure that researchers need to think big, innovate and push the boundaries of knowledge. State-of-the-art research facilities and equipment increase the capability of Canada’s universities, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research organizations to carry out high-quality research. This, in turn, helps them to attract and retain the world’s top talent, train the next generation of researchers and support world-class research that strengthens the economy and improves the quality of life for all Canadians. Website: https://www.innovation.ca
Episodes
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10,000 ways | Jan Rainey is untangling the mysteries of spider silks
The Dalhousie University researcher is looking to create synthetic versions of spider's silk that have the potential to help heal damaged nerves and damaged hearts. Researcher Jan Rainey’s curiosity about synthetic fibres began during an undergraduate work term with DuPont. Years later, he heard...
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10,000 ways | Pooneh Maghoul: Working at the forefront of geotechnical engineering
(Available only in French) Can our critical infrastructure withstand the effects of climate change? Pooneh Maghoul and her research team are working to make our bridges, roads and other critical infrastructures more resistant to climate change and extreme environments on Earth and in space. She...
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10,000 ways | Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan are global leaders in pandemic preparedness
In 2002, German researcher Volker Gerdts relocated to Saskatoon. Cutting-edge vaccine research was the attraction. Now he is at the helm of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) World-renowned infectious disease specialist Volker Gerdts calls himself a “builder” who is carefully...
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10,000 ways | How neuroendocrinology crosses sectors to create promising new insights
(This podcast is only available in French) Nafissa Ismail focuses on the effects of hormones on the brain to pin down the interactions between our organs and our emotions Epidemiological data shows that the roots of depression form during puberty or adolescence for 75 percent of adults…
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10,000 ways | The future of flight depends on sustainability that goes beyond biofuels
The University of Waterloo’s Suzanne Kearns is a global leader in sustainable aviation, but her flight path wasn’t without turbulence. Suzanne Kearns grew up in Wiarton, Ont., where she would lie in the grass and watch airplanes from the local airport take flight overhead. Her dreams of flying…
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10,000 ways | Meet Acadian researcher Céline Surette, for whom interdisciplinarity is second nature
(The audio content of this podcast is only available in French.) Céline Surette embodies both the chemistry of living things and interdisciplinarity to serve the real needs and questions of communities. And to achieve this, and ensure that critical thinking triumphs, she'll pull out all the…
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10,000 ways | Should bodies of water have the same legal status as people?
This podcast is about curious researchers, leading-edge science and the joys of discovery and gets its name from Thomas Edison who said, “I have not failed. I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” Researcher Kelsey Leonard, member of the Shinnecock Nation and founder of the…
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10,000 ways | Science (sea) star
(Available only in French) This is a podcast about curious researchers, leading-edge science and the joys of discovery. Our podcast gets its name from Thomas Edison who said, “I have not failed. I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” Ocean science research is at a pivotal moment...
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10,000 Ways | Reinforcing the reliability of our vulnerable electricity grid
Welcome to 10,000 ways. This is a podcast about curious researchers, leading-edge science, and the joys of discovery. York University’s Pirathayini Srikantha studies power grid systems with the aim of keeping Canada’s infrastructure safe from fluctuations and hackers. Find out why she’s…
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10,000 ways | Alex Langlois fell in love with the Arctic. Find out why he's fired up!
(This podcast is available only in French) Alexandre Langlois is passionate about all aspects of his job. As a researcher in Northern Canada, he studies the fastest-warming place on the planet and presents data on the issues that await us in terms of climate change. Like a high-level athlete,...
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10,000 ways | The healing power of food: how nutrition and Carla Prado help treat cancer
On a cold March 2, 2004, Carla Prado arrived on the doorsteps of the University of Alberta. She left behind her native Brazil to fulfill a dream of studying abroad. Today, she is an academic leader in body composition research who passionately shares the benefits of protein-rich diets in the...
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10,000 ways | Why using sound to treat disease is beautiful music to Simone Dalla Bella's ears
(This podcast is available only in French) Simone Dalla Bella of Montréal’s International Laboratory for BRAin, Music and Sound Research asks “How can music help us in our daily tasks? And how can it slow down the deleterious effects of diseases such as Parkinson’s?” Why is it that some people…
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10,000 ways | Learn how Leyla Soleymani's curious nature is making life less sticky!
Leyla Soleymani is Canada’s Research Chair in Miniaturized Biomedical Devices. Her passion for the miniature world of nanotech and her commitment to collaboration have led her and her colleagues at McMaster University to inventions ranging from rapid tests that use pig saliva to disease detection...
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10,000 ways | How does Anna Blakney use TikTok to help people understand mRNA vaccines?
For many, RNA vaccines seem to have appeared out of nowhere. The curious and the hesitant have wondered how a vaccine to fight COVID-19 could have been brought to market so quickly. In fact, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have been in development for over three decades. Here is the story about a...
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Julie Carrier: Taking on sleep medicine
This podcast is only available in French. Une chercheuse à l’Université de Montréal se concentre sur le sommeil des femmes. Julie Carrier of the Université de Montréal has devoted her academic career to the fascinating world of sleep, using equipment she received from the CFI to monitor the…
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Stéphane Laporte: Using genetics to eliminate the side effects of drugs
This podcast is only available in French. A researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre explores ways to improve drugs Stéphane Laporte, a researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, became interested in pharmacological research…
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Tigran Galstian: Creating molecular lenses
This podcast is only available in French. One of the co-founders of LensVector talks about the origins of their molecular lens. Tigran Galstian, professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at Université Laval and co-founder of LensVector, explains the invention of a...
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Jacques Genest: Developing new interventions to cure cardiovascular disease
This podcast is only available in French. A researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre studies the link between genetics and cardiovascular disease. In the 1980s, when Jacques Genest was starting out in the Faculty of Medicine, cardiovascular disease was the…
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Ian Clark: Tracing contaminants in the earth
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Ian Clark, professor of Earth sciences at the University of Ottawa, explains how radiocarbon dating using an accelerator mass spectrometer can help resolve significant issues surrounding contaminated environments. This podcast is part of an in-depth...
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Constantin Polychronakos: Using genetics to find a cure for juvenile diabetes - Podcast
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Constantin Polychronakos has devoted his career to studying the genetics of juvenile diabetes and treating children afflicted with the disease. As head of the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Research Institute of the McGill...
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Chris McGibbon: How real-world exoskeletons could change the future of rehabilitation
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Chris McGibbon from the University of New Brunswick is researching robotic exoskeletons to help people with brain and spinal cord injuries regain mobility. The fundamental goal of the John R. Evans Leaders Fund is to help universities attract and...
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Basil Petrof: Accelerating new treatments for respiratory diseases like asthma - Podcast
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Basil Petrof heads the Program for Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. His research group participated in a clinical trial that proved the efficacy of a new therapy that...
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Jordan Grigor: Studying the tigers of the plankton aboard the CCGS Amundse
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. PhD student in Oceanography at the Université Laval, Jordan Grigor, discusses his research on the Arctic arrow worm, known as the tiger of the plankton. He also gives a glimpse into life aboard the CCGS Amundsen, Canada's only dedicated Arctic...
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John Rudan: Human Mobility Research Centre finds new way to keep baby boomers on their feet
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. With an aging population, the need for joint replacements is increasing. Researchers at Queen's University are working to solve this problem. Dr. John Rudan, an orthopaedic surgeon at Kingston General Hospital and a principal investigator at the…
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Leslie Weir: An innovative librarian who led the way to digital access
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Leslie Weir, the first female university librarian at the University of Ottawa, led a team who received $20 million from the CFI in 1997 to help 64 Canadian university libraries make the leap from print to digital. Prior to the Canadian Site…
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Michael Kramer: Understanding the long-term impacts of breastfeeding
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. In 2001, pediatrician and epidemiologist Michael Kramer and his colleagues published the largest ever randomized trial on breastfeeding which followed 17,000 babies into their teenage years and showed links between how exclusively and for how long...
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Verena Tunnicliffe: The only woman on board
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. The University of Victoria’s Verena Tunnicliffe recalls the open hostility she faced when she first began boarding research ships to conduct her oceanographic studies. In one instance, the cook refused to sail, saying it was either him or her. Guess...
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John Moore: Salmon swimmers of the Skeena
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Spindly black spruce cloak the mountains and rise from the banks of the Skeena River, one of the longest free-flowing rivers in British Columbia. But Jonathan Moore is more interested in what lies below the water’s surface — thousands of sockeye...
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Michael Kramer: Examining the adverse outcomes of pre-term birth
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Pediatrician and epidemiologist Michael Kramer studies the long-term effects of pre-term births, including by Caesarean section or induced labour, as well as other adverse pregnancy outcomes such as still births and infant mortality. He will oversee...
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Melody Wiseheart: How distracting is technology in the classroom?
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. In her two-pronged study, York University psychology professor Melody Wiseheart found that students’ test scores fell by 10 percent when asked to surf through Facebook, YouTube and their email while simultaneously trying to pay attention to a…
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Brian Greenspan: Attention Future Shoppers
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. The holiday shopping spree of the future will be nothing like the crowded, stuffy gauntlet of today, according to Brian Greenspan, director of Carleton University’s Hyperlab. Greenspan and his students research the implications of a Big Brother...
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John Braun: Making sense of wildfire data through visualization
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. John Braun from the University of British Columbia will use his new data visualization lab to make sense of the complex data behind wildfire science. The fundamental goal of the John R. Evans Leaders Fund is to help universities attract and retain...
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Laureen McIntyre: A portable lab helps children with speaking and literacy difficulties
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Laureen McIntyre from the University of Saskatchewan aims to improve children’s literacy and speaking abilities through her new community-based research lab, where she and her team can observe and document children’s interactions with others. The...
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Robert Sawyer: Sci-fi writer imagines the future of Canadian science
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. This country’s extraordinary real-life research facilities provide a wondrous backdrop for Sawyer’s imagined futures, proving you don’t have to stray far from home to be inspired by leading-edge science Award-winning author Robert Sawyer dreamed of…
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Gerry Wright: Keeping antibiotics ahead of infectious diseases
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly serious problem - threatening to alter modern medicine as we know it. It's an area of research that has captured Gerry Wright's attention for over two decades. As the director of the Michael G. DeGroote...
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Annie Castoguay: Better molecules for better medicine
Disponible aussi en français: https://blubrry.com/fci_cfi/41971985/annie-castonguay-de-meilleures-molcules-pour-une-meilleure-mdecine/ Annie Castonguay, a researcher at Quebec’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique, works to mobilize metals to destroy cancer cells and drug-resistant...
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Chukwunonso Nzelu:Tiny fly, deadly bite
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. University of Calgary post-doctoral student Chukwunonso Nzelu studies the deadly tropical disease Leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a devastating disease that kills tens-of-thousands of people every year. By studying the sandflies that transmit it…
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Carrie Bourassa: Knowledge, ceremony, and an Indigenous approach to research
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Carrie Bourassa explains what Indigenous research methodology means, and why it matters When non-Indigenous scientists wish to conduct research in Indigenous communities, cultural misunderstandings can arise over issues including the methods of...
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Sheena Gurm: Seeking a treatment for ALS
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. PhD student Sheena Gurm looks deep into brain cells for clues to a deadly disease When viruses infected our ancestors millions of years ago, they left behind strands of their DNA embedded in human brain cells. At the University of Manitoba, Sheena...
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Ghose, Damascelli, Hall and Pioro-Landrière: The solace of quantum
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Sub-atomic research portends a second digital revolution that could solve some of our most vexing problems Building on the theories of Einstein and his contemporaries, today’s quantum physicists investigate the unique properties of sub-atomic...
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Tefford Simpson: Sight for sore eyes - Researching the nerves of the cornea
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Twenty years ago, University of Waterloo Optometry and Vision Science Professor Trefford Simpson began researching the nerves on the surface of the human eye, using a specialized machine called the pneumatic esthesiometer. In this podcast, he shares...
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Michael Houghton: His 30-year quest to cure Hepatitis C
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. Michael Houghton’s discovery of the Hepatitis C virus in 1989 — along with colleagues Qui-Lim Choo and George Kuo — led to blood screening tests that have protected tens of millions of people from contracting the disease. In this podcast, Houghton —...
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Catherine Girard: Dealing with mercury in food
Disponible aussi en français: https://blubrry.com/fci_cfi/27727460/catherine-girard-attnuer-limpact-du-mercure-dans-la-nourriture/ At the Université de Montréal, Catherine Girard analyzes gut bacteria to understand the impacts of mercury in the human body. She is particularly interested in how...
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Episode 6: The way forward
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. In the 2017 Federal Budget, the word “innovation” appeared 262 times. Innovation's future as a buzzword is secure but in this episode, CFI President & CEO Gilles Patry and Board Chair Kevin Smith look at what innovation in Canada looks like today....
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Episode 5: A new research strategy for Canada
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. To help reverse the brain drain that plagued Canada's research community in the 1990s, the newly established Canada Foundation for Innovation started outfitting Canadian universities with the state-of-the-art research infrastructure they sorely...
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Episode 4: An idea becomes reality
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. The new Canada Foundation for Innovation begins to assemble a talented team that charts an exciting course for the organization, but must also address opposition from Quebec. Researchers try to adjust to a new “mind blowing” way of doing research....
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Episode 3: The idea of CFI is born
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. The Liberal government suddenly finds itself facing a budget surplus for the first time in decades. Researchers, university presidents, government officials in the department of Finance and the PMO work on a plan to support research through an...
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Episode 2: An unexpected opportunity
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. The Liberal government cuts spending across government so deeply, even Finance Minister Paul Martin faces a crisis of confidence. At the same time, university presidents try to convince Minister Martin that research in Canada is in serious…
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Episode 1: Fiscal Armageddon
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. When the Wall Street Journal calls Canada the “Banana Republic of the North”, Jean Chrétien and his new Liberal government prepare to take dramatic action to control the deficit. This threatens to make a difficult situation even worse for Canadian...
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Our origin story - PROMO - Canada is the "Banana Republic of the North"
Ce balado est uniquement disponible en anglais. In this excerpt, former Deputy Minister of Finance Scott Clarke describes former Prime Minister Jean Chretien's reaction to a Wall Street Journal article in the late 1990s that called Canada the "Banana Republic of the North." This is a promo clip…
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Since 1997, the Canada Foundation for Innovation has invested in infrastructure that researchers need to think big, innovate and push the boundaries of knowledge. State-of-the-art research facilities and equipment increase the capability of Canada’s universities, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research organizations to carry out high-quality research. This, in turn, helps them to attract and retain the world’s top talent, train the next generation of researchers and support world-class research that strengthens the economy and improves the quality of life for all Canadians. Website: https://www.innovation.ca
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