ONTARIO RESEARCH FUND - Innovation Stories

2008

Transforming Cardiac Care Graham Wright is a man on a mission. His goal is to extend Ontario’s leadership in the fight against cardiovascular disease by developing the next-generation of imaging tools. MORE
Turning Landfills Into Valuable Assets Chances are, when you leave your garbage at the curb for pickup, you don’t give it another thought. MORE
Taking Solar Power Mainstream “The sun is by far the largest potential source of energy for the planet,“ says Dr. Nazir Kherani. “In fact, if we could capture all the energy reaching us from the sun in just one hour and turn it into electricity, we could power the earth for a year.” MORE
Centre For The Control Of Emerging Contaminants: Protecting Our Water Supply In May 2007 major media outlets across the country reported on a study by a Canadian fish researcher. What she’d discovered was that trace amounts of estrogen – used in birth control pills – found in lake water was enough to seriously distort development in entire fish species. MORE