Innovation Anthology #320:

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions has just announced 43 million dollars in funding towards health research.

The awards will support 37 investigators at the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, and for most, the funding goes for 7 years.

Dr. Jacques Magnan, CEO of Health Solutions, outlines some of the research projects.

DR. JACQUES MAGNAN: For example, at the University of Calgary there’s a project Dr. Paul Kubes is working on sepsis. And essentially, he’s a basic scientist who looks at the processes of inflammation in sepsis. There are people working on osteoporosis from a biomedical engineering perspective. So trying to get a sense of how to measure better not only the bone density but the quality of the material in the bone. There’s people working on protein folding diseases, such as in the cow, the mad cow disease, but in humans there’s a lot of discussions now about the potential of these different proteins impacting the development of diseases, again, like Alzheimer’s, like schizophrenia, like Parkinson’s disease.

According to Dr. Jacques Magnan, this is the last round of awards that follows the previous model of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.

Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Health Solutions.

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions)

As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top quality, internationally competitive health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans. We provide leadership for Alberta’s health research and innovation enterprise by directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting research and innovation.

Working with our many partners  in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation in care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and clinicians influence research.

Our background

Alberta Innovates consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency  of the Government of Alberta. We receive a yearly allocation from the Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of Alberta.

Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.

Alberta’s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out Alberta’s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our considerable investments in research align with our priority—to improve the health of Albertans.

 

 

Program Date: 2010-06-08