McGill gets $1.65 M from NSERC for training project
CREATE project to prepare graduates for high-skills work in surgical-devices industry
A team led by Ď㽶ĘÓƵ professor Jake Barralet will receive $1.65 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to provide nearly 90 students with cross-disciplinary training to prepare them for high-skill jobs in the surgical devices industry.
The McGill-led project is among 13 new workplace-oriented training projects funded nationally through NSERC’s Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) initiative. The announcement was made Thursday at McGill by Greg Fergus, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, on behalf of the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science.
McGill’s project will emphasize innovation-oriented teamwork, pioneering for the first time in Canada a training model designed at Stanford University. With some 15 private-sector partners, the training will cover all aspects of surgery-related technology, from tools for diagnosis and patient risk reduction to postoperative monitoring and care.
“Dr. Jake Barralet’s newly funded project at McGill, Innovation at the Cutting Edge, will be a model program of industry partnership in the area of surgical devices,” said Rosie Goldstein, McGill’s Vice-Principal of Research and International Relations. “The project’s participants will benefit from unparalleled preparation for career opportunities in healthcare technology.”
“This award provides a unique opportunity for teams of surgeons, scientists, engineers, and business students to work together to improve patient care by applying the process of needs-based clinical innovation,” Prof. Barralet, Vice Chair (Research) in the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and scientist at the Research Institute of the Ď㽶ĘÓƵ Health Centre. The MUHC “provides a fertile environment to expose this multi-disciplinary team to a variety of clinical problems, challenging them to create innovative solutions.”
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