UAlberta Research in Your Life
UAlberta researchers have driven many discoveries and innovations, many of them pioneering; some of them truly revolutionary and world firsts. But do you know just how many have touched or changed your life, your world or daily life?
UAlberta researchers have driven many discoveries and innovations, many of them pioneering; some of them truly revolutionary and world first. But do you know just how many have touched or changed your life, your world or daily life? Here are just a few:
- Drugbank: Advancing health and patient care via drug data and knowledge
- Canada's 1st open heart surgery
- The C-Leg: Helping amputees walk easier, safer, and more naturally
- Edmonton Protocol: Paving the way for a cure for Type 1 diabetes
- Quantum canola: Helped save Canada's canola industry
- Revolutionary cattle breeding: Helped make Alberta beef a world leader
- World's first hepatitis B antiviral: It also fights HIV/AIDS
- Detecting and preventing colon cancer
- Smart-e-Pants: High tech underwear that can save lives
- Alberta's 1st satellite
- Linac-MR: Future of cancer radiotherapy
- World's 1st technology to accurately measure running speed and distance
- Aveo System: Less time wearing braces + better oral health
- Medically at risk driver assessments: For safer driving, and safer roads
- The WalkAide®: Helping people walk better, easier, faster and further