Jan-2017
Mac research centres get $10 million in government funding
Two cutting-edge McMaster-based institutes have received a combined $10 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy is getting $3.75 million over five years, to maintain its state-of-the-art equipment. The instruments include Canada’s only 3D atom probe, which pulls atoms one by one to reconstruct virtually on a computer. This can be used to better understand medical conditions, for example, in understanding human bones at a deeper level to assist with bone implants and diagnostic tools.
The Canadian Research Data Centre Network, which has 27 research data centres across the country, will get $5.9 million for the operations and central management of the network at McMaster. The data centre network is studying, amongst other things, better use of health-care spending and accessing health outcomes depending on policy approaches.
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