A $700,000 grant will help three researchers at the University of Windsor take their research 'over the top.'
The grant comes from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and Ontario Research Fund and is one of the largest grants awarded this year in the country.
The chemistry and biochemistry professors at the university will purchase new state-of-the-art equipment and instruments to expand their research into making new types of materials for wearable electronics as well as designing chemotherapy drug delivery methods that target cancer cells--not healthy cells.
One of the researchers is Dr. John Trant who says without the new equipment, it limits research capabilities.
"We have a very high concentration of researchers and so we have a lot of active research already occurring, so this money allows us to go and buy new instrumentation that will support us and accelerate the kind of research that we are doing."
He says a lot of the equipment doesn't exist elsewhere in Canada which means "when people want to us this, or do the kind of measurements or make the kind of materials, they come to work with us at the University of Windsor."
Trant hopes to have the equipment in place by the end of the year.
He says the grant will help the research do ' fancier things in the kind of science we are developing.'