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Influential agricultural leader fuels academic and on-farm collaboration

For University of Guelph professor and researcher Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald, protecting plants has been a primary focus for the past 25 years in U of G’s Department of Plant Agriculture. But her expertise also leads her to play an important leadership role in the University’s largest partner collaboration. 

Ontario Agri-Tech Pitch Competition: An extension of the Gryphon's LAAIR program

Register to watch the Ontario Agri-tech Pitch Competition online on March 24

The Research Innovation Office at the University of Guelph is excited to announce the Ontario Agri-Tech Pitch Competition in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs.

By uniting farmers, academics, agri-tech entrepreneurs and investors, this event will raise awareness about the problems worth solving and showcase investible companies.

Join us online to watch as the next generation of new Ontario-based agri-tech start-up companies battle it out to be best in class.

Stem cell therapy shows promise for equine and human joint injuries

Researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), University of Guelph are studying joint health in horses and the regenerative possibilities of stem cell therapy to help unlock answers for our equine companions with the aim to ultimately translate those solutions to human health. Joint pain, once considered an ailment of aging, is now recognized as one of the most common orthopedic conditions in the human and equine world.

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Register for the free (virtual) data visualization workshop happening on Feb. 28

Help your audience understand the patterns and key insights hidden within your datasets by transforming them into meaningful and impactful visuals.

This workshop series is a collaboration between the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) and the Research Innovation Office at the University of Guelph. See all workshops in the winter 2023 Skills for Research Impact series.

Data science: promoting early disease detection in robotic milking systems

In research funded in part by the Alliance, Meagan King, a former post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Animal Biosciences, and Dr. Trevor DeVries analyzed robotic milking system data from Ontario dairy farms to determine disease-indicating behaviours, such as declines in rumination behaviour and overall activity. 

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U of G spin-off named one of Canada’s 50 most investable clean-tech companies

Psigryph, an innovative company built on University of Guelph research into naturally derived nanoparticles to deliver nutrition and medicine into cells, has been named one of Canada’s most investable cleantech firms by cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada.

Psigryph‘s success is growing internationally thanks in part to several funding and entrepreneurship programs, including support from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a collaboration between the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and U of G.

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Knowledge Translation & Transfer Funding Call Open

Submit your proposal or attend the town hall information session at noon on Wednesday, March 1.

The Alliance's Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) Funding Program aims to accelerate the impact of agri-food and rural research.

Applications are open for two funding streams:

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