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Friday, June 15, 2018 Ottawa, ON Today, Genome Canada, together with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), is pleased to launch a Request for Applications for the 2018 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition: Genomics Solutions for Agriculture, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture. The Competition […]

Out of the gate, New Brunswick has positioned itself as a leader in the cannabis industry. With the legalization of recreational cannabis on the horizon in Canada, New Brunswick has identified cannabis as a major economic development driver and is […]

The Conference Board of Canada’s recently released Innovation Scorecard ranks most Canadian provinces low on Business Enterprise R&D. Genome Atlantic is part of the solution. Private sector investment makes up about ¼ of our R&D portfolio. Check out the Business Enterprise Expenditure […]

Genome Canada’s Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition in Agriculture, Agri-Food, and Aquaculture is expected to be launched in June 2018.  This highly competitive funding opportunity is aimed at supporting projects that demonstrate how genomics-based research can improve health care, contribute […]

Ten years ago, Newfoundland researchers cracked the genetic code of a cardiac disease that causes death in seemingly healthy young people. The disease, Type 5 ARVC, is particularly prevalent in Newfoundland and Labrador. Genome Atlantic recently caught up with researchers […]

It’s not often that we get a chance to look back and marvel at the ripple effect a research project can have. Almost seven years ago, Genome Atlantic launched IGNITE, a three-year research project focused on helping those with orphan […]

Update: Drs. Terry-Lynn Young, Kathleen Hodgkinson, Sean Connors and Daryl Pullman were awarded a Governor General’s Innovation Award in May 2018 for their groundbreaking work identifying the lethal gene mutation that causes Type 5 ARVC, dubbed the “Newfoundland Curse”. Watch […]

Riding the wave of  Innovation Funding for the Ocean Supercluster is amazing news for Canada’s ocean economy and Atlantic Canada! We congratulate the consortium for putting together such a compelling proposal, and thank Minister Navdeep Bains for this investment by […]

Genome Canada’s (GC) latest Bioinformatics and Computational Biology competition launched in early December. One of the major objectives of this competition is to support the development of tools and methodologies that will help the research community deal with the influx of […]

Genome Atlantic President & CEO Steve Armstrong explains in an opinion piece how a global trend in genomics technologies is helping to drive growth in the biosciences in Atlantic Canada. The piece was published in a number of regional daily […]