Canada has been putting the pieces of the puzzle together in recent years, and a pretty picture is emerging for scientists. A new focus on innovative programs and increased funding for scientists suggests that it's no fluke that for the first time, five Canadian universities are in the top 10 of
Since the late 1990s, the research environment in Canada has witnessed "a virtual revolution," says Bruce McManus, a professor of pathology at the Uni versity of British Columbia in Vancouver.
"The federal government alone has injected somewhere in the range of $13–15 billion new dollars into a combination of personnel awards," says McManus, who is also head of the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, one of 13 institutes at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The Canada Foundation for Innovation also poured $10–11 billion of new ...
