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2008 BC Innovation Council Award Winners BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Innovation Council (BCIC) is pleased to announce the 2008 British Columbia Innovation Council Award Winners-innovation champions who are setting the path for B.C.'s bright future, announced Hector MacKay-Dunn, QC, Chair of BCIC. Read more TEACHERS FROM WINNIPEG, VANCOUVER, AND MONCTON RECEIVE NATIONAL AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE Third annual BIOTECanada-Biogen Idec Awards presented during National Biotechnology Week 2008 OTTAWA (September 22, 2008) – Three teachers from Winnipeg, Vancouver and Moncton received the third annual BIOTECanada‐Biogen Idec Teaching Excellence Award. Albert Chang, Robert Adamson, and Lawrence McGillivary were judged by a panel of industry experts to be the three top educators in a secondary school level biotechnology program. This program awards a total of $10,000 annually to the 3 winning teachers and their respective schools. Read more BC Life Sciences Companies Win at Canada's Top 10™ Competition LifeSciences BC is pleased to report that four of our member companies we nominated for the Red Herring Canada 2008 Competition did very well in this national competition. Indel Therapeutics, iCo Therapeutics, and Innimex Pharmaceuticals all took one of the Canada's Top 10™ Competition winners' positions, and EnGene was listed as a finalist. Read more LifeSciences British Columbia Recognizes Dr. Michael Hayden, Named Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year November 19, 2008; Vancouver, BC – LifeSciences BC is pleased to announce that one of British Columbia’s pre-eminent health researchers, Dr. Michael Hayden, Director and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, and University Killam Professor, Department of Medical Genetics at UBC has received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Michael Smith Prize in Health Research: Canada's Health Researcher of the Year award. Read more |
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