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

April 28, 2023

The Government of Canada has announced an investment of $1.4 billion through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) to support 11 large-scale research initiatives in strategic areas. This investment will enable researchers at Canadian institu ...

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

February 9, 2022

A single droplet of dried saliva is enough for Raman spectroscopy to identify whether or not a person is infected with the COVID-19 virus (Credit: Amber et al, JBO) The pandemic has familiarized all of us with techniques used to identify the presence of v ...

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

December 29, 2021

(Photo: Caroline Perron) The award recognizes this leading expert in spinal biomechanics’s outstanding contribution to Canada. His work has led to significant advances in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases affecting adolescents, and crowns a career ...

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

November 11, 2020

Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Frédéric Leblond (Engineering Physics), and the CHUM’s Dr. Dominique Trudel, (Pathologist), both of whom are also researchers at the CRCHUM. (Photo: CHUM) Equipped with a straight-forward saliva test that uses Raman spec ...

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More accurate prostate cancer diagnoses with Raman spectroscopy

August 18, 2020

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer directly affecting men in Canada, accounting for 20% of all new cancer cases identified in this group. The Canadian Cancer Society says some 23,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year and approxim ...

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Examining aerosol movement in order to better protect health care personnel

August 5, 2020

Professor Étienne Robert’s team is conducting experiments with artificially-generated aerosols to visualize the movement of fluids in aerosol containment enclosures. For most trades and professions, maintaining the required two-metres of physical distance ...

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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

N95 masks could soon be reused, thanks to procedures adapted by Polytechnique professors. (Photo: Debora Cartagena, USCDCP, licence CC0/Pixnio) On March 19, the TransMedTech Institute launched a call for needs, technological innovations and expertise, in ...

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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

This work, the topic of an article in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, points to the imminent arrival of new portable instruments to accelerate the screening process and molecule analysis in biological laboratories, in particular for purpose ...

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

November 19, 2018

In January 2009, the life of engineer Michel Meunier, a professor at Polytechnique Montréal, changed dramatically. Like others, he had observed that the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond laser (0.000000000000001 second) could make nanometre-sized hol ...

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