{"id":26084,"date":"2023-04-18T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/?p=26084"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:28:49","slug":"an-investment-of-nearly-16-5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/an-investment-of-nearly-16-5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"An investment of nearly $16.5 million for health and environmental solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Montr\u00e9al, April 18, 2023<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is pleased to highlight the performance of Qu\u00e9bec researchers in a pan-Canadian competition. More than $16.5 million will be invested in genomics in Qu\u00e9bec, including $5.5 million through G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec. As part of this announcement, 28% of the available Canadian funding envelope was allocated to projects in Qu\u00e9bec. These investments will help accelerate the commercialization of genomics and increase its real-world applications. These funds were announced by the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, the Honourable Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne, under Genome Canada\u2019s Genomic Applications Partnership Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A collaboration with public-private partners<\/strong><br>The health and environment sectors have immense potential to leverage genomics innovations. These key sectors consolidate Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s economic competitiveness and fostering the well-being of the Qu\u00e9bec population and its environment. St\u00e9phanie Lord-Fontaine, Vice President, Scientific Affairs at G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec, stated, \u201cThanks to the collaboration of multiple partners, whether from the public, private or academic sectors, we can meet the challenges facing our society in terms of both health and the prevention of climate change. Genomics is not only providing concrete and sustainable solutions, but also a vector for innovation in research and technological applications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/02-Press-Release-April-18-2023-An-investment-of-nearly-16.5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/02-Press-Release-April-18-2023-An-investment-of-nearly-16.5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Press release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/02-Press-Release-April-18-2023-An-investment-of-nearly-16.5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 02-Press-Release-April-18-2023-An-investment-of-nearly-16.5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-80821264-1d5c-4bae-96cf-71dba5571a48\" href=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/02-Press-Release-April-18-2023-An-investment-of-nearly-16.5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions.pdf\">02-Press-Release-April-18-2023-An-investment-of-nearly-16.5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/02-Press-Release-April-18-2023-An-investment-of-nearly-16.5-million-for-health-and-environmental-solutions.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-80821264-1d5c-4bae-96cf-71dba5571a48\">T\u00e9l\u00e9charger<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montr\u00e9al, April 18, 2023&nbsp;\u2014 G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is pleased to highlight the performance of Qu\u00e9bec researchers in a pan-Canadian competition. More than $16.5 million will be invested in genomics in Qu\u00e9bec,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"16728,16501,16494,16568,16589,16707","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26289,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26084\/revisions\/26289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}