The University of Winnipeg was granted $440,088 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) that will go towards two cutting edge and relevant research projects at the University. This funding is part of an announced $26-million investment to help universities across the country attract and retain the best and brightest minds from Canada and around the world. UWinnipeg, the academic community and the students will benefit from this close to half a million dollar investment in research.
UWinnipeg’s In Vivo Experimental Animal Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM) Centre is to receive $400,000 of CFI funding. In addition, the centre will also receive $400,000 from the Province of Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund and over $260,000 from a corporate donation. Physics professor Melanie Martin is the principal investigator on this project and UWinnipeg chemistry professor Dr. James Peeling and Dr. Marc Del Bigio, professor in department of pathology at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, and neuropathologist at the Health Sciences Centre are co-applicants on this research project.
“The aim of the centre is to understand, diagnose and monitor nervous system disorders dealing with the brain and spinal cord, says Martin. Being a part of this project and working with this MRM, my co-applicants and the National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics is phenomenal.This MRM is one of the most powerful magnetic resonance imaging scanners in the country so the possibilities are exciting and limitless.”
Dr. Dawn Sutherland, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Science Education, will receive $40,088 from CFI in the establishment of an International Indigenous Science Education Centre (IISEC). This centre will provide a space and advice for pre-service and in-service teachers of indigenous students. It will also share access to the resources necessary for teaching indigenous science.
Currently UWinnipeg has a number of partnerships with programs committed to science and youth education and this CFI funding makes this access to educational resources to those that need it more viable.
