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Media Highlight: R&D projects get boost

Posted by Communications and Marketing on July 9, 2014 in Media Highlights

From Wedndsday's Chronicle Herald:

The federal government dropped more than $11 million on Nova Scotia on Tuesday to push research and development projects and expand the province’s firefighter school.

Rob Moore, the federal minister in charge of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, announced an Atlantic Innovation Fund investment of more than $33 million — including $10.4 million in four research and development projects in Nova Scotia — at a news conference at the Waterfront campus of the Nova Scotia Community College in Dartmouth.

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Funding in Nova Scotia was also provided to:

•Capital district health authority ($2,959,855) to develop “push-button MRI diagnostics” to help improve patient outcomes;

•ABK Biomedical Inc. ($2,140,000) to develop new biomaterials to improve chemotherapy and radiotherapy for patients;

•±«Óătv University ($2,321,299) to develop an acoustic wireless modem to improve performance of underwater sensors and instruments.

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