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U of T researchers receive more than $15 million for infrastructure to study brain inflammation, genetics Jennifer Gommerman and Charles Boone are leading two of four research projects at U of T that recently received support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (photos by Nick Iwanyshyn and courtesy of Boone)
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has funded two major projects that will bring new research equipment to the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and its hospital partners, including a 7-Tesla MRI and imaging mass cytometry that can visualize protein markers in tissue with microscopic detail.
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An innovative, ground-breaking telescope named Dragonfly is about to undergo a major transformation thanks to nearly $2-million in support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is a unique telescope designed to observe astronomical phenomenon such as extremely faint galaxies and the dark filaments of gas associated with many of them.
Dragonfly is the brainchild of
Roberto Abraham, a professor of astronomy and chair of the David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Science, and Pieter Van Dokkum, a professor of astronomy at Yale University.