Dr. John Remmers, a global leader in sleep physiology and sleep medicine, was the first to demonstrate that sleep apnea, a condition in which a person stops breathing periodically during sleep, is due to an anatomical narrowing of the pharynx. Dr. Remmers produced CPAP and the SnortSat sleep recorder.
Dr. Lori West is a renowned pediatric heart-transplant researcher who discovered infants can accept hearts from donors with different blood types. Dr. West discovered this was possible because infants have undeveloped immune responses. Her research focus for the future is on incompatible transplantation in adult patients. Dr. Lori West was recruited to the University of Alberta from Toronto, Canada's SickKids hospital thanks to Alberta Innovates Health Solutions funding.
We understand business. We also understand that entrepreneurs and investors need good working partnerships and support to quickly translate research into meaningful products, processes and services. And that's exactly what you'll get in Alberta-thanks to Alberta Innovates and the environment of open innovation that it has developed. Alberta Innovates can help you find solutions, develop products and move technologies to market by building on Alberta's already established advantage in platform technologies - like nanotechnology, information communications technologies and genomics.
Alberta has a 90-year history and is world renowned for innovation in oil and gas industry. But we also have a long history of innovation in the wood, pulp and paper, and forestry industries as well as significant success in both animal and human health.
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures has developed a method for analyzing mercury that has much lower detection limits than previously offered. This accuracy and limit has allowed Alberta Environment to build a model which tracks mercury emission sources on Alberta rivers.
Dr. Bruce McNaughton was recruited to the University of Lethbridge along with a team of 51 people. The recruitment was supported by a $20 million Polaris Award, jointly funded by the University of Lethbridge, Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures.
Alberta is one of the best destinations for research on improving the production and quality of plant Bioproducts. One Alberta Innovates-funded research chair includes Dr. Dae-Kyun Ro, who is focusing on how "green chemistry" can alleviate our reliance on petrochemicals.
In-Vivo Multispectral Imaging System FX shows real-time changes in metabolism in animals which can be used in research for diabetes, transplant success, stem cells, and analyzing the effect of drugs on specific organs.
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