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  May. 14, 2013           News Release

New study looks at the life cycle of biofuels in Alberta

AI-EES and the Alberta Department of Energy have completed a joint study that provides an analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, other air pollutants and the energy implications of six Alberta-specific biofuel pathways.

  Apr. 30, 2013           News Release

Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions invests $10M in water research

Alberta Innovates - Energy and Environment Solutions (AI-EES) is pleased to announce the selection of 18 research projects in support of safe, secure drinking water; healthy aquatic ecosystems; and reliable, quality water supplies for a sustainable economy.The projects selected for the Water Resource Sustainability Program will receive up to $1.5M each to a total investment of $10M in support of the Government of Alberta's "Water for Life" strategy.

  Mar. 11, 2013           News Release

Discovery may explain how prion diseases spread between different types of animals

Edmonton...Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have made a discovery that may explain how prion diseases, like chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease, adapt in order to spread between various types of animals. ...funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, PrioNet Canada, and the Alberta Prion Research Institute, a program of Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions.

  Feb. 21, 2013           News Release

Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation launches $35 million international challenge to find useful applications for carbon

EDMONTON -Alberta's first Grand Challenge seeks to move carbon from liability to asset. The Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is seeking innovative ideas from around the world for a $35 million open innovation challenge that will create new, carbon-based products and markets. The grand challenge is the first ever initiated by an organization in Alberta, Canada. It is expected to identify multiple technologies that could provide significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by transforming carbon from a liability into an asset. The CCEMC Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses, draws on a broad network of supporters that includes ... Alberta Innovates -- Energy and Environment Solutions, Alberta Innovates - Bio Solutions and Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures.

  Feb. 08, 2013           News Flash

Join the Conversation

Alberta's water belongs to all Albertans. How it's managed for the future is vitally important to us all.
Albertans are being engaged in a province-wide conversation to guide future government direction in at least 4 key water resource areas: healthy lakes, hydraulic fracturing and water, drinking water and wastewater, and water management.
AI-EES manages an 18 million dollar water resources research program, with a focus to invest in knowledge and technology to support Alberta's water strategy. Our staff will be participating in many of the stakeholder sessions for the water conversations and will use the insite gained to help guide our investments in specific innovations to support the provincial strategy.

  Feb. 07, 2013           News Release

Skin stem cells hold promise for burn patients

Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions researchers at the University of Calgary are investigating new and novel ways to improve wound healing for burn survivors. Jeff Biernaskie, PhD, and Vincent Gabriel, MD, are among the first recipients of the Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions (AIHS) Collaborative Research and Innovation Opportunities (CRIO) Project funding.

  Jan. 29, 2013           News Release

Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation and Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions announce funding for a project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to agricultural fertilizer use

EDMONTON --Farming 4R Land project provides assessment framework to help farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve profitability. The CCEMC is providing nearly $200,000 in financial support for a project that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to fertilizer use. This is the first project funded through the Biological GHG Management Program, administered by Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions (AIBIO) with funding from the CCEMC.

  Jan. 24, 2013           News Flash

Oil Sands Miners Advance New Technologies for Tailings Management

Oil sands producers established the Oil Sands Tailings Consortium in late 2010, to advance tailings management by making tailings-related technical information more broadly available and eliminating financial and intellectual-property roadblocks that might prevent tailings management advances.

  Jan. 22, 2013           News Flash

Engineering & Mining Journal Feature

Oil Sands Miners Advance New Technologies for Tailings Management
Oil sands producers established the Oil Sands Tailings Consortium in late 2010,
to advance tailings management by making tailings-related technical information more broadly available and eliminating financial and intellectual-property roadblocks that might prevent tailings management advances.

  Jan. 16, 2013           News Release

Investors raise their participation in Enerkem Alberta Biofuels

Enerkem Inc. (www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemical company, is pleased to welcome the first employees to the Enerkem Alberta Biofuels facility in Edmonton.

  Jan. 07, 2013           News Release

Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions announces new CEO

Robert A. Seidel (Q.C.), Chair of Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions' (AIHS) Board of Directors, is delighted to announce on behalf of the entire board and staff, that Dr. Cy Frank will become the corporation's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on April 1, 2013.

  Nov. 13, 2012           News Release

Proposals invited for a smarter, cheaper, faster way of detecting pathogenic E.coli

EDMONTON...National consortium launches new research funding program. A consortium of Canadian research organizations has combined efforts to fund development of an innovative test for the presence of pathogenic E. coli bacteria during food production.This funding program aims to foster continuous improvement in the safety of the Canadian food supply and create long-term health benefits for Canada.

  Nov. 06, 2012           News Flash

Alberta - a place where innovation lives

The Alberta Innovates system was designed to create the circumstances for entrepreneurialism and innovation to become a way of life in Alberta. Read the November Alberta Venture magazine insert on the progress being made by the four Alberta Innovates corporations - Bio Solutions, Health Solutions, Energy and Environment Solutions and Technology Futures - in coordinating research activities within the public, private and academic sectors and delivering services for entrepreneurs, established companies and emerging start-up businesses.

  Oct. 23, 2012           News Release

Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Credit

Good news for innovative companies. Changes to the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Credit included in the new Corporate Tax Amendment Act will enhance annual benefits to Alberta research companies.

  Oct. 12, 2012           News Flash

The Best in Research and Innovation

The four Alberta Innovates corporations - Bio Solutions, Health Solutions, Energy and Environment Solutions, and Technology Futures - co-ordinate research activity across the public, private and academic sectors and deliver services for entrepreneurs, etablished companies and technology-driven startup businesses.

  Oct. 05, 2012           News Flash

Steps in right direction for clean coal movement in Canada

The clean coal movement is forging ahead in Canada as the energy sector implements new technologies to enhance oil production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

  Oct. 03, 2012           News Release

Alberta Innovates partners on wood-based auto parts research project

BANFF... New technologies and markets open for Alberta companies. Auto parts from wood that are strong, light-weight and low-cost is the aim of a new applied research project. Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, among other partners, is investing $600,000 in this project, which may help respond to consumers' desire for better auto fuel efficiency and green innovation.

  Oct. 03, 2012           News Release

Alberta Innovates funds Biorefining Conversions Network 2.0

BANFF... Hydrocarbon-like fuels and chemicals to come from agricultural and forest biomass. With funding from Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, the Biorefining Conversions Network aims to become a hub for bioeconomy investments and a world class centre of excellence for biorefining and biomass conversions. Using a Campus Alberta approach over the next three years, the network will receive $3.8 million for business development and research that turns the province's agricultural and forestry biomass into drop-in fuels and chemicals compatible with both traditional and emerging industries.

  Sep. 27, 2012           News Flash

Globe and Mail Article

The future appears to be brightening for Canada's oil sands as domestic and foreign firms develop pioneering solutions that reduce the environmental footprint of extraction, while also powering commercial growth.

  Sep. 04, 2012           News Flash

Financial Post Article

Innovation heads west: Oil sands pick up Canada's teck slack.
Half a century of fighting over every speck of Alberta's oil sands now behind them, Canada's largest heavy-oil producers are now embroiled in another decades-long battle.

  Aug. 23, 2012           News Release

Tailings Roadmap Action Plan

A new way forward in reducing oil sands tailings impact was charted with the release of outcomes from the Tailings Technology Roadmap and Action Plan project.

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  Jul. 26, 2012           News Release

Harper Government teams with Canadian researchers to bolster food safety system

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Genome Canada and Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions are partnering in a $600,000 project that will help protect consumers from Listeriosis, a serious foodborne illness.

  Jul. 11, 2012           News Release

Alberta and Eli Lilly Canada announce research fund

Getting new drugs or other health care innovations into the hands of doctors and nurses furthers the health of Albertans. And a new research partnership will help develop innovative health care products right here in Alberta.

  Jun. 01, 2012           News Release

Alberta Innovates announces millions in Quality Food for Health grants

Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, along with seven other funding partners, is announcing $5 million in funding for 13 research projects focused on using the power of science towards better food and better health.

  May. 24, 2012           News Release

Alberta Innovates team makes stem cells by the millions

Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions scientists have transformed the landscape of stem cell research for scientists everywhere. Derrick Rancourt, PhD, and Roman Krawetz, PhD, have perfected a new bioreactor technology that allows them to make millions of pluripotent stem cells much more quickly than ever before.

  May. 14, 2012           News Release

CCEMC commits $8.4 million to GHG management from biological sources

Through Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) funding, strategies that enhance the uptake of carbon from the atmosphere, hold it in the soil for a longer period of time, or prevent its direct release will be explored, tested and shared with stakeholders by groups of researchers, industries and government experts. For additional information please see Alberta Innovates - Bio Solutions.

  Apr. 27, 2012           Info Bulletin

Measuring the impact of health research - Making Connections Conference June 17 - 19

Alberta has a strong legacy of conducting world-class health research. Join us at this year's Making Connections Conference for intense and wide-ranging discussions around a key driver in today's research and innovation sector: showing value from public investment in research.

  Apr. 03, 2012           Info Bulletin

Some of Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions' new funding opportunities

Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions has a new suite of funding opportunities to support health research and innovation to improve the health and well being of Albertans and people worldwide.

  Feb. 27, 2012           News Release

Funding spurs new bioproducts from Alberta biomass

EDMONTON... Three companies developing industrial products from Alberta biomass in the agricultural, forestry and municipal waste sectors are now a step closer to the marketplace after receiving a total of $4 million in grants from Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions (AI Bio).