UAlberta Research in Your 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
- 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