New funding of $5.1 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), announced today by the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, will help researchers Marcel Behr, MD, PhD, and Silvia Vidal, PhD, ensure that Canada is better prepared for the next pandemic. This funding is part of the more than $127 million investment being made through the CFI to support upgrades to eight biocontainment facilities across the country as part of its new Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund (BRIF) program.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2022
Today, the Government of Canada announced an investment of more than $ 301 million in support of social sciences and humanities research, bioscience infrastructure and the Canada Research Chairs Program. The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry made the announcement at the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. McGill was awarded 35 Insight Development Grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and 11 renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC) from the Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP).
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Published on: 16 Nov 2022
The Canada Foundation for Innovation supports innovative projects that tackle global challenges
Exciting initiatives involving researchers at The Neuro are among the latest getting support under The Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Innovation Fund competition.
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Published on: 19 Mar 2021
ECE Professor Thomas Szkopek and Professor Marta Cerruti (Mining and Materials Engineering) lead the team that has recently obtained CFI funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund competition for their project Functional Atomic-scale Materials Engineering (FAME).
You can see the complete article here
Congratulations to Thomas and Marta!
Published on: 16 Mar 2021
Today, Élisabeth Brière, Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages announced funding results from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund (IF) for universities in Quebec.
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Published on: 9 Mar 2021
Read the story in the McGill Reporter
Read the McGill news release
Funded Projects:
SecureData4Health
McGill team lead: Guillaume Bourque, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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Published on: 9 Mar 2021
Five projects led by McGill University researchers are included among the 79 receiving a total of $28 million in research infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Exceptional Opportunities Fund. The announcement was made today by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry during a news conference this morning.
Published on: 6 Nov 2020
By Amanda Testani, Office of VP Research & Innovation
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Published on: 18 Aug 2020
On March 20, 2020, the Government of Quebec announced an immediate shutdown of constructions sites due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 7, it was announced that the date to resume construction activities is May 4, 2020. This is a rapidly evolving situation and we will provide updated guidance and information as it becomes available.
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Published on: 6 Apr 2020
Eleven McGill researchers have received grants totaling $2.2 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). The announcement was made earlier today by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. The McGill recipients will receive matching funds from the Quebec government.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2018
By Meaghan Thurston
New labs and equipment through the CFI’s Innovation Fund will help six transformative McGill research projects to collaborate, innovate and train the next generation of scientists for the jobs of tomorrow.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
At Laurentian University today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced a total investment of $52 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund for 220 new infrastructure projects nationally. Among the 51 universities across the country with funded projects, McGill leads the pack with an impressive number—23 projects totaling $4.2 million—in this latest round of the funding competition.
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Published on: 15 Aug 2017
McGill University will receive more than $1.1 million for CBRAIN, one of the world’s most advanced computing platforms for brain research, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.
Marc Miller, Member of Parliament for Ville-Marie — Le Sud-ouest — Île-des-sœurs, made the announcement at McGill on behalf of the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, the Minister of Science.
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Published on: 15 Sep 2016
This significant investment of public and private support will redefine the future of music research in Canada by transforming the way musicians compose, listen and perform music.
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Published on: 3 Jun 2016
To support six research projects in fields from neuroscience to food safety and Arctic ecosystems
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Published on: 15 Apr 2016
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