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Canada First Research Excellence Fund announces major new investment in artificial intelligence research and innovation

April 28, 2023

Polytechnique Montréal is a partner in a strategic project in artificial intelligence being led by the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO) that has just received a $124.5-million investment through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. The Honour ...

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COVID-19: A new detection strategy developed at Polytechnique Montréal

February 9, 2022

A team from Polytechnique Montréal and the CRCHUM has just demonstrated how Raman spectroscopy and simple saliva samples could be used to quickly detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The breakthrough was published today in an article the Journal ...

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Professor Carl-Éric Aubin receives appointment to the Order of Canada

December 29, 2021

Polytechnique Montréal is proud to announce that Full Professor Carl-Éric Aubin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, researcher at CHU Sai ...

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Detecting the SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva: A clinical study starts

November 11, 2020

A multidisciplinary team and their project, led by Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Frédéric Leblond and the CHUM’s Dr. Dominique Trudel is moving into Phase II - developing a diagnostic tool using saliva samples to detect COVID-19 carriers. Over the ne ...

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More accurate prostate cancer diagnoses with Raman spectroscopy

August 18, 2020

Diagnosing the different subtypes and grades of prostate cancer could become more accurate with the use of Raman microspectroscopy, an approach developed by a team from Polytechnique Montréal and the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Universi ...

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Examining aerosol movement in order to better protect health care personnel

August 5, 2020

Over the past few weeks, Québec’s dentists, ophtalmologists, and oto-rhino-laryngologists have reopened their clinic doors. Yet how much risk are they subject to, given the realities of COVID-19? A Polytechnique professor is delving into the question and ...

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A banner year for Polytechnique Montréal, as three professors named fellows in the Canadian Academy of Engineering

June 16, 2020

L. to r.: François Bertrand, Carl-Éric Aubin, and Yvon Savaria The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) is a time-honoured organization comprising many of the country’s most experienced engineers, who amply demonstrate dedication to science and engineeri ...

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COVID-19: TransMedTech Institute is on track to enabling the reuse of N95 masks

April 8, 2020

In less than three weeks of work, several innovations are already emerging from the mobilization activities of the TransMedTech Institute. Among them are two procedures for rehabilitating N95 masks, initiatives to which professors from Polytechnique Montr ...

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A 100% Québec discovery made at Polytechnique Montréal in partnership with McGill University paves the way for new automated biological-sample analysis systems to accelerate and facilitate disease detection

April 17, 2019

Professor Thomas Gervais of the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal and his PhD students Pierre-Alexandre Goyette (biomedical engineering) and Étienne Boulais (engineering physics), in partnership with the team led by Professor Dav ...

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A major step toward non-viral ocular gene therapy using laser and nanotechnology

November 19, 2018

A scientific breakthrough by Professor Michel Meunier of Polytechnique Montréal and his collaborators offers hope for people with glaucoma, retinitis or macular degeneration. ...

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