¶ Alberta Innovates
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Alberta Innovates is a Canadian provincial government agency owned and operated by the Government of Alberta.
¶ History
In 2011, Alberta Innovates partnered with Pfizer, the Alberta Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and Western Economic Diversification Canada to create and co-manage the Alberta/Pfizer Translational Research Collaboration Fund. Later renamed to the Pfizer-Alberta Collaboration in Health, the fund totaled $3.5 million in 2013.
In November 2018, Pfizer and the Government of Alberta announced an additional $1.3 million contribution to the fund. This brought the fund value at the time to over $4.8 million.[1]
¶ COVID-19
In September 2020, Alberta Innovates announced $2.1 million in funding for COVID-19 research. Seven projects were selected for funding out of a pool of 28 applicants:[2]
| Principal Investigator | Organization | Title | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jie Chen | University of Alberta | Development and Clinical Validation of a Rapid Antibody Detection Device for COVID-19 | $304,200 |
| Andrei Drabovich | University of Alberta | Rational design and standardization of serology diagnostics using immunoaffinity-targeted proteomics assays | $182,098 |
| Matthias Hoben | University of Alberta | COVID-19 and Caregivers of Assisted living Residents: their Experiences and Support needs (COVCARES-AB/BC) | $328,376 |
| Jia Hu | University of Calgary | Changing COVID-19 Behaviors through a data-driven targeted marketing campaign (19 to Zero) | $392,080 |
| Mark Lewis | University of Alberta | Predicting and managing COVID-19 pandemic dynamics using machine learning | $220,545 (supported through the Pfizer-Alberta Collaboration in Health) |
| Ken Parhar | University of Calgary | The Evaluation of a PRONe Positioning Knowledge Translation Toolkit in COVID-19 ARDS (PRONTO) study | $362,285 |
| Puneeta Tandon | University of Alberta | Reconnecting vulnerable outpatients with multidisciplinary care – an RCT assessing online programming in the time of COVID-19 | $326,297 |
¶ Organization
AI operates two subsidiary companies; C-FER Technologies and InnoTech Alberta. It also runs the Alberta Foundation for Health Research.[3]
C-FER works in partnership with the global energy industry, while InnoTech works with environmental, biological, and energy technology companies.
¶ External links
Brunner, D. (2018, November 26). Alberta Government and Pfizer Canada boosts provincial collaborative health innovation partnership with Alberta Innovates. Alberta Innovates. https://archive.ph/1ppaw ↩︎
Semeniuk, R. (2020, September 10). Alberta Innovates injects $2.1 M into COVID Research. Alberta Innovates. https://web.archive.org/web/20221026201102/https://albertainnovates.ca/impact/newsroom/alberta-innovates-injects-2-1-million-into-covid-research/ ↩︎
Alberta Foundation For Health Research. Charitable Impact. Retrieved October 26, 2022, from https://archive.ph/7dBQu ↩︎