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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=PlainText1><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span style='color:windowtext'><img width=320 height=135 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CDF334.807B0FD0" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01CDF32F.F1D011D0"></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>January 13, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=PlainText1><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=PlainText1><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>New Research Initiative May Help Cancer Fight and a Better Understanding of the Origins of the Universe <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Dr. Rituparna Kanungo’s newest research collaboration has some lofty goals: improve cancer research, stimulate the manufacturing of high</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>tech Canadian</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>made instrumentation and help explain the origin of the cosmos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The Saint Mary’s nuclear physicist’s goal moved one step closer to reality today when the federal government announced $1.6 million in support for an advanced research facility that will allow her to recreate, purify, and condition rare isotopes that haven’t existed on the planet for millions of years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The federal fiscal support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation together with additional provincial and private sector investment will allow the $4.5 million project to be operational in 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>“The facility will dramatically advance Canada's capabilities for isolating, purifying, and studying short-lived isotopes that hold the key not only for understanding the rules that govern the basic ingredients of our everyday lives but also for crafting new therapies that could target and annihilate cancers cell-by-cell within the human body, “ said Dr Kanungo.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The CANadian Rare-isotope facility with Electron-Beam ion source (CANREB) project is led by Saint Mary’s University partnering with the University of Manitoba and Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, Inc. in collaboration with the University of British Columbia, the University of Guelph, Simon Fraser University, and TRIUMF. TRIUMF is Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. It is owned and operated as a joint venture by a consortium of Canadian universities that includes Saint Mary’s University. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The CFI funding helps to build the bridge across Canada for knowledge and skills development, joining expert hands from coast to coast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>As one of the nation’s top nuclear researchers (she was one of only two Canadians invited to speak at a Nobel Symposium last June about exotic isotopes), Dr. Kanungo has been conducting research at the TRIUMF facility for many years, carrying out analyses from her office at Saint Mary’s University together with teams of students. Her students also often spend semesters at the Vancouver facility. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>As the project leader for the new initiative, she said TRIUMF is the ideal location because of its world leading isotope-production capabilities and its ability to produce clean, precise, controlled beams of selected exotic isotopes not readily available anywhere else in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>In recent studies in the U.S., some of these isotopes have been shown to have dramatic impact in treating types of cancer, by delivering radioactive payloads directly to the cancerous cells. Canada's mastery of the technology to isolate, study, and control these isotopes will change the course of healthcare.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=PlainText1><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An integral part of the project is the creation of a new generation of high resolution spectrometer using precision magnets. Advanced Cyclotron Systems, Inc. a company in British Columbia, has been selected for the work with the hope that the expertise it develops during the venture will empower it to design and build precision-magnet technology products for cutting-edge projects all around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Research and innovation is a forceful driver of growth in our communities,” said Gilles G. Patry, president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. “Today’s funding will allow a talented group of researchers and students to create the solutions, products and ideas Canada needs to prosper.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>– 30 –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About Saint Mary’s University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saint Mary's University in Halifax helps students explore big ideas with its small class sizes and accessible teaching staff. It offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Arts, Business, and Science with social and career outreach opportunities in the local community and through partnerships around the globe. It is home to The Sobey School of Business, the largest and most respected business school in Atlantic Canada. We are proud of the high standard of our academic programs, our innovative research, and our commitment to be a living laboratory where we create a more sustainable future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About the Canada Foundation for Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Canada Foundation for Innovation gives researchers the tools they need to think big and innovate. By investing in state-of-the-art facilities and equipment in Canada’s universities, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research institutions, the CFI is helping to attract and retain the world’s top talent, to train the next generation of researchers, to support private-sector innovation and to create high-quality jobs that strengthen the economy and improve the quality of life for all Canadians. For more information, visit innovation.ca.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>For more information, contact: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Steve Proctor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Communications Manager - External Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Saint Mary's University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Tel 902.420.5513 | Cell 902.237-3915<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:steve.proctor@smu.ca">steve.proctor@smu.ca</a> | <a href="http://www.smu.ca">www.smu.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>