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Read success stories about NRC research, and how our work contributes to the success of our clients and partners.

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- Boucherville, Quebec

Research Centre: Medical Devices
Recognizing that we can accomplish much more by working with others than on our own, the NRC embarked on a bold initiative in 2018‑19: to create collaboration centres with leading Canadian organizations in order to accelerate science excellence and technology development. All of these centres will have a "dedicated" physical location at the NRC, or on partner property, where researchers from both organizations will share access to specialized equipment, work side by side on collaborative projects, and provide training opportunities for young scientists.
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- Ottawa, Ontario

Research Centre: Design and Fabrication Services
The hallmark of the National Research Council's (NRC)Design and Fabrication Services Branch is its ability to work with NRC researchers in a responsive, collaborative manner, leveraging the diverse capabilities of the branch in direct support of important research and technical services. This is the case even if the work must move from one part of the country to another to stay at the pace of innovation. With 13 shops spread across Canada, Design and Fabrication Services delivers design and fabrication services that meet demanding requirements for apparatus, fixturing, experiment setups and technical services for the NRC's contributions to academia, industry and major international partnerships.
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- Ottawa, Ontario

Research Centre: Aerospace
A key goal of the National Research Council of Canada's (NRC) Aerospace Research Centre is to advance scientific knowledge in order to stimulate innovation, enhance our capabilities and sustain our relevance as a knowledge generator. Not only do we share our knowledge outwardly with industry and academia, but we also do this inwardly – by providing the opportunity to grow and learn from each other by exchanging ideas among colleagues. One successful example of our approach is the Early Career Network (ECN), a collective of early career employees, visiting workers and students from the NRC's Aerospace Research Centre.
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- Ottawa, Ontario

Research Centre: Human Resources
In keeping with the Government of Canada's "cloud-first" digital principle, the NRC opted to implement a cloud-based solution, hosted and maintained in a highly secure, Canadian data centre. The NRC also chose to adopt a commercially available solution rather than go the traditional "built for government" path - SuccessFactors provides best-in-class standardized business processes with data integration across modules leveraging a consumer-grade web interface.
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- Ottawa, Ontario

Research Centre: Human Health Therapeutics
Until the Zika virus (ZV) outbreak in Brazil caught the global medical and public health communities by surprise in 2015, ZV was considered to be a benign pathogen for healthy humans. That outbreak, associated with a massive increase in babies born with neurological and other developmental defects, with similar increases in Guillain‑Barré syndrome in adults, spiralled into an epidemic affecting other parts of South and Central America, the Caribbean and the USA.
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- Almonte, Ontario

Research Centre: Industrial Research Assistance Program
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- Edmonton, Alberta

Research Centre: Industrial Research Assistance Program
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- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Research Centre: Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
Industry: Crop Development, Precision / Smart Agriculture, Human Nutrition
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- Ottawa, Ontario

Research Centre: Industrial Research Assistance Program, International Innovation Office
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, met with her counterpart, the Honourable Anja Karliczek, Federal Minister of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany, during her week-long visit to Canada to discuss and celebrate Canada and Germany's mutual interests in advancing research and innovation for the economic benefit of both countries. Earlier this week, the two Ministers joined other global science leaders at the 46th Carnegie Meeting of Science Ministers in Banff, Alberta to discuss the importance of encouraging the general public to get involved in science.
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- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Research Centre: Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
Industry: Agronomics, Crop Development, Nutrition and Nutritional Properties, Human Nutrition
After 13 years of collaborative research involving more than 200 scientists across 73 research institutions in 20 countries, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) has finally deciphered the wheat genome code. The detailed description of the genome of bread wheat, the world's most widely cultivated crop, was announced on August 16, 2018 in the international journal Science.