{"id":31900,"date":"2025-06-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/?p=31900"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:12:41","slug":"9-6m-invested-in-quebec-to-accelerate-high-impact-biotech-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/9-6m-invested-in-quebec-to-accelerate-high-impact-biotech-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"$9.6M invested in Qu\u00e9bec to accelerate high-impact biotech projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to highlight the funding of <strong>two innovative projects totaling $9.6M in Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong>, as part of a strategic investment aimed at accelerating the commercialization and adoption of genomic and biotechnology-based solutions. These projects address urgent challenges in health and aquaculture and showcase Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s leadership in applied research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Revolutionizing Protein Quantification<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The <strong>SysQuan<\/strong> project, led by McGill University, the University of Manitoba and MRM Proteomics, aims to transform biomedical research through a next-generation, more precise and affordable proteomics platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More Resilient Oysters, a Safer Future for the Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A project led by Universit\u00e9 Laval, in partnership with L\u2019\u00c9tang Ruisseau Bar Lt\u00e9e, is working to develop oysters naturally more resistant to the MSX disease, which threatens Eastern Canada&#8217;s shellfish industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These initiatives are supported through <strong>Canada\u2019s Genomics Strategy<\/strong>, with over $18M in total investment nationwide \u2014 including <strong>$9.6M invested in Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong>, backed by the Government of Canada (via Genome Canada) and regional genome centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 Learn more about the projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/funded-projects\/sysquan-a-next-generation-precise-and-affordable-proteomics-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/funded-projects\/sysquan-a-next-generation-precise-and-affordable-proteomics-platform\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore SysQuan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/funded-projects\/accelerating-the-development-of-msx-resistant-oysters-in-eastern-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/funded-projects\/accelerating-the-development-of-msx-resistant-oysters-in-eastern-canada\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore the oyster resistance project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udce3 <strong>Read Genome Canada\u2019s official announcement: <a href=\"https:\/\/genomecanada.ca\/canadian-genomics-strategy-biotech-investment-tackles-urgent-health-and-industry-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/genomecanada.ca\/canadian-genomics-strategy-biotech-investment-tackles-urgent-health-and-industry-challenges\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the news<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to highlight the funding of two innovative projects totaling $9.6M in Qu\u00e9bec, as part of a strategic investment aimed at accelerating the commercialization and adoption of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31901,"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":"29200,28161,29300,30215,16588,16484","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31910,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions\/31910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}