Over the next five years, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation will be putting $3.525 million into some pretty diverse research, including how omega-3 fatty acids called be used in food and pharmaceuticals; advanced cyber security threat detection, and biomedical human prosthetics
A total of six New Brunswick Innovation Research Chairs will receive $1,000,000 over five years, plus two research assistants and a research technician worth $175,000.
The three recipients announced today were Erik Scheme and Natalia Stakhanova of the University of New Brunswick, and Mark Surrette from U de M. All are working on advanced reseatch in areas that could benefit the province.