ENGAGED RESEARCH: Sustainable solutions to marine biomass innovations
Written on: Enero 17, 2022
Title : ENGAGED RESEARCH: Sustainable solutions to marine biomass innovations
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ENGAGED RESEARCH: Sustainable solutions to marine biomass innovations
Memorial University and a consortium of university-affiliated and community-affiliated researchers from local Mi'kmaw communities across Newfoundland have been awarded nearly $15 million through the federal New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) to investigate how repurposed marine biomass can develop new products and create a more sustainable future for Newfoundland and Labrador's coastal communities.
The large-scale, interdisciplinary project, supported through NFRF's Transformation stream, is titled "Repurposing marine by-products or raw materials for the development and production of functional foods and bioactives to improve human health and coastal community sustainability." Dr. Raymond Thomas, the nominated principal investigator, is a professor of environmental chemistry at Memorial's Grenfell Campus in Corner Brook, NL. The co-principal investigator, Dr. Kelly Anne Hawboldt, is a professor in the Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, at the St. John's campus. There are many other researchers involved in this project from Memorial University and universities around the world.
Together, they've brought together a team of global collaborators, ranging from local Mi'kmaw communities and businesses from Newfoundland, colleagues from Dalhousie University, Mount St. Vincent University, University of Waterloo, and Cape Breton University as well as international partners from Ireland, Japan, Italy, and Australia. This team will investigate marine biomass and marine functional foods with a view to repurposing by-products and raw materials for the development and production of functional foods, bioactives, and biomaterials with the ultimate goal of improving human health and coastal community sustainability.
"This is an example of the exemplary research being conducted at Memorial University," said Dr. Vianne Timmons, vice-chancellor and president. "As is stated in Transforming Our Horizons, our new strategic plan, we have a special obligation to the people of our province. This major funding success is focused exactly on that – research that, while global in application, aims to better the lives of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador."
The funding announcement is a historic one for Grenfell Campus.
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Our team (Drs Alexandros Tsoupras and Ioannis Zabetakis) is one of the international collaborators in this project.
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