Faculty of Science

A group of researchers at the University of Ottawa has been looking for ways to improve enzyme design methodologies and recently published their findings in Nature Communications.

David Bryce is named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Ebrahim Karimi is elected Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation has awarded more than $1.3 million to the André E. Lalonde Accelerator Mass Spectroscopy Laboratory at the University of Ottawa. The only one of its kind in Canada, the lab is one of 14 national research facilities to receive support for ongoing operation and maintenance from the Major Science Initiatives Fund.

Nicolas Corradi obtains a University Research Chair in Microbial Genomics. The proposed research is expected to lead to patents and fungal strain licensing. In the longer term, Corradi plans to establish an agro tech start-up.