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MITACS at SFU receives $21.6 million in funding from the government of Canada
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Karen Booth, MITACS, 604.268.6861, cell: 604.505.6812,
kbooth@mitacs.ca
Marie-Reine Cluniat, Networks of Centres of Excellence, 613.996.0390
marie-reine.cluniat@nce.gc.ca
Karen Booth, MITACS, 604.268.6861, cell: 604.505.6812,
kbooth@mitacs.ca
Marie-Reine Cluniat, Networks of Centres of Excellence, 613.996.0390
marie-reine.cluniat@nce.gc.ca
November 5, 2004
The Honourable Hedy Fry, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre, on behalf of the Honourable David L. Emerson, Minister of Industry, today announced a $21.6 million, four-year investment in MITACS, a mathematics-oriented national Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE), located at Simon Fraser University. MITACS was successful in obtaining a 2nd round of funding in the 2005 national NCE competition.
“With this major investment, the Government of Canada will enable this British Columbia based network to mobilize and apply intellectual and financial resources from across the country and focus them on issues critical to our health, industry and society,” said Minister Emerson.
“The MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence is impressive in scope, world-class in science and will continue to make significant contributions to the economy and our quality of life,” said Dr. Fry.
“The advances made through the Networks of Centres of Excellence program are an important part of what Canada needs to position itself among the world's R&D leaders. The program focuses resources on issues critical to our health, industry and society, and brings those issues to life in the form of marketable results,” said Dr. Nigel Lloyd, Executive Vice President of NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council).
The funding provided to MITACS (The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) will bring university researchers together with corporate and government partners in a collaborative effort to solve large-scale problems in the biomedical and health, environment and natural resources, information processing, risk and finance, and networks and security sectors.
Dr. Michael Stevenson, President of Simon Fraser University added, "Simon Fraser University is pleased to be the home of this Network of Centres of Excellence that facilitates the application of the mathematical sciences to problems in industrial research and development, business and public policy analysis. The renewal of funding to MITACS testifies to the significant impact it has had and will have on the innovation and creativity that drives our economic development. SFU is proud to be able to continue working with MITACS in harnessing the power of world-class mathematical expertise in support of Canada's social and economic objectives."
“With this important funding, MITACS can forge ahead in building on our past successes, and develop and apply mathematical technologies to deal with problems that are strategically fundamental to Canada,” said Dr. Arvind Gupta, MITACS Scientific Director, explaining that a significant portion of the new funds will focus on research in the healthcare field, including the treatment and control of such diseases as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Further details on MITACS can be found in the attached backgrounder and on the Network's website www.mitacs.ca.
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Website: The Mathematics of Informed Technology and Complex Systems:
www.mitacs.math.ca/
“With this major investment, the Government of Canada will enable this British Columbia based network to mobilize and apply intellectual and financial resources from across the country and focus them on issues critical to our health, industry and society,” said Minister Emerson.
“The MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence is impressive in scope, world-class in science and will continue to make significant contributions to the economy and our quality of life,” said Dr. Fry.
“The advances made through the Networks of Centres of Excellence program are an important part of what Canada needs to position itself among the world's R&D leaders. The program focuses resources on issues critical to our health, industry and society, and brings those issues to life in the form of marketable results,” said Dr. Nigel Lloyd, Executive Vice President of NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council).
The funding provided to MITACS (The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) will bring university researchers together with corporate and government partners in a collaborative effort to solve large-scale problems in the biomedical and health, environment and natural resources, information processing, risk and finance, and networks and security sectors.
Dr. Michael Stevenson, President of Simon Fraser University added, "Simon Fraser University is pleased to be the home of this Network of Centres of Excellence that facilitates the application of the mathematical sciences to problems in industrial research and development, business and public policy analysis. The renewal of funding to MITACS testifies to the significant impact it has had and will have on the innovation and creativity that drives our economic development. SFU is proud to be able to continue working with MITACS in harnessing the power of world-class mathematical expertise in support of Canada's social and economic objectives."
“With this important funding, MITACS can forge ahead in building on our past successes, and develop and apply mathematical technologies to deal with problems that are strategically fundamental to Canada,” said Dr. Arvind Gupta, MITACS Scientific Director, explaining that a significant portion of the new funds will focus on research in the healthcare field, including the treatment and control of such diseases as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Further details on MITACS can be found in the attached backgrounder and on the Network's website www.mitacs.ca.
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Website: The Mathematics of Informed Technology and Complex Systems:
www.mitacs.math.ca/