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Alliances |
The Brain Repair Centre is a multi-institutional collaboration made possible through the following partners:
The investment in the BRC supports the province's economic growth strategy, Opportunities for Prosperity, which encourages commercialization of research and innovation in the life sciences. The Province, through the Office of Economic Development is contributing $1.25 million for construction of the MRI facility.
Physicians and researchers from Dalhousie University are members of the research collaboration that is the Brain Repair Centre. The Faculty of Medicine has played a critical role in the development of the Brain Repair Centre initiative, providing support and resources from the outset of the project. http://www.dal.ca/
Physicians and researchers from Capital Health are members of the research collaboration that is the Brain Repair Centre. The new MRI facility will be closely linked to the QEII Health Sciences Centre, located on land adjacent to the Halifax Infirmary site. http://www.cdha.nshealth.ca/
The IWK is also an active and respected centre for its world-class research into disorders and disease affecting children and women, and for the services provided concerning child and adolescent mental health.
The Brain Repair Centre (BRC) will receive $2.1 million through the Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF) for a research and development project investigating stem cell use in the repair and treatment of brain disorders and spinal cord injury
NRC-IBD's scope extends world wide, combining collaboration and expertise with opportunities to propagate high technology medical imaging into hospitals and clinics across Canada, establishing affordable and accurate diagnoses for diseases that touch all Canadians. The NRC has provided $4.2 million in funding for the purchase of a 4.0 Tesla MRI system. Through the establishment of IBD (Atlantic), NRC will provide an additional $3.0 million to fund several research and technical positions, plus operating costs for the BRC initiative. The National Research Council's - Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) has been involved with this project for the outset and is continuing its association to assist in maximizing the industrial commercialization potential of technologies developed at the Brain Repair Centre. http://www.nrc.ca/
For further information or interst in partnering with the BRC please contact us.
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The Office of Economic Development leads and coordinates provincial government work on economic development, technology and innovation, in partnership with businesses, governments, and communities, to create the conditions that stimulate and sustain a thriving economy throughout Nova Scotia.
Dalhousie is a comprehensive teaching and research university, offering 175 programs to 14,500 undergraduate, professional and graduate students. The university's research capacity attracts more than $60 million in external funding annually. Research expertise includes ocean studies and health studies, with a growing involvement in advanced technical research and education. Dalhousie is building research expertise in important new fields, including materials science, neuroscience, biotechnology, genomics, information management, environmental research, health law, foreign policy, financial services and biomedical engineering and policy.
Capital Health is about healthy people and healthy communities. It is about bringing individuals together, uniting institutions, working in partnership with the people it serves. Capital Health is an organization of over 10,000 staff and physicians working within an integrated academic health district. Capital Health provides core health services to 395,000 residents, or 40 per cent of the population of the Nova Scotia. Capital Health also provides tertiary and quaternary acute care services to residents of Atlantic Canada.
The $300-million Atlantic Innovation Fund is a five-year Government of Canada initiative that is administered by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. It is designed to build the economy of Atlantic Canada by increasing the region's capacity to carry out leading edge R&D that directly contributes to the development of new technology-based economic activity in the region. Specifically, the Fund is aimed at increasing the R&D being carried out in Atlantic research facilities leading to the launch of new ideas, products, processes and services.
Canada's National Research Council (NRC) is a leader in the development of an innovative, knowledge-based economy for Canada through science and technology. NRC's Institute for Biodiagnostics (IBD), established in 1992, performs research in medical diagnostics, focussing on instrumentation and processes for the early, non-invasive diagnosis of a range of serious medical conditions.
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E-mail: Brainrepair@dal.ca T. (902) 473.3355 F. (902) 473.3351 |