Chris Orvig wins the 2009 Rio Tinto Alcan Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry
Via his expertise in coordination chemistry and its applications to health problems, he has made major contributions to understanding metal ions in biological processes, particularly medicinal. His focus for thirty years has been medicinal inorganic chemistry, in both basic and applied research, and in the promulgation of the field to non-experts. Projects in his labs […]
Overall lab provides perspectives into multitasking proteins
The cover artwork represents Popper’s postulate: If several observations of swans always show swans to be white, then the conclusion is that all swans are white. The dogma that all swans are white, held until the discovery in the eighteenth-century of black swans in Australia. We used this as an analogy for the interpretation of […]
Maurer lab commercializes technology to improve quality platelet transfusions
Through research initiated in her capacity as a Scientist with the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) at the CBR, Dr. Elisabeth Maurer has invented a new test, referred to as ThromboLUX, to determine the quality of platelets for transfusion. In 2007 Dr. Maurer and her team conducted a successful pilot study at the Vancouver General Hospital […]