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Areas of Research

The National Research Council's (NRC) research strengths are organized around key sectors such as biotechnology, information and communications technologies, measurement standards, molecular sciences, aerospace, manufacturing, construction, ocean engineering and others.

NRC has moved boldly into emerging and strategically-important fields such as:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Environmental and Sustainable Development Technologies
  • Fuel Cells
  • Genomics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Photonics
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Proteomics

Research in each of these areas is critical to the health, well-being and economic prosperity of Canadians and will help ensure that Canada becomes a world-leader in innovation.

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R&D Highlights
  Question and Answer: Dr. Harry Jennings
Sales of a Meningitis C vaccine have earned NRC scientist Dr. Jennings status as Canada's highest royalty-generating government scientist ever. Such royalties help fund continued research.
Find out more about Dr. Harry Jennings in a
new interview series.  
   

Date Modified: 2003-03-05
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