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# Alberta Innovates
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/alberta-innovates/
- Published: 1999-01-02T09:19:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-31T21:05:03.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

**Alberta Innovates** is a Canadian provincial government agency owned and operated by the Government of Alberta.

## History

In 2011, Alberta Innovates partnered with [Pfizer](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Pfizer), the Alberta Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and Western Economic Diversification Canada to create and co-manage the Alberta/Pfizer Translational Research Collaboration Fund. Later renamed to the Pfizer-Alberta Collaboration in Health, the fund totaled $3.5 million in 2013.

In November 2018, Pfizer and the Government of Alberta announced an additional $1.3 million contribution to the fund. This brought the fund value at the time to over $4.8 million.[\[1\]](#fn1)

### COVID-19

In September 2020, Alberta Innovates announced $2.1 million in funding for COVID-19 research. Seven projects were selected for funding out of a pool of 28 applicants:[\[2\]](#fn2)

  
| Principal Investigator | Organization          | Title                                                                                                                                          | Funding                                                                 |
| ---------------------- | --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Jie Chen               | University of Alberta | Development and Clinical Validation of a Rapid Antibody Detection Device for COVID-19                                                          | $304,200                                                                |
| Andrei Drabovich       | University of Alberta | Rational design and standardization of serology diagnostics using immunoaffinity-targeted proteomics assays                                    | $182,098                                                                |
| Matthias Hoben         | University of Alberta | COVID-19 and Caregivers of Assisted living Residents: their Experiences and Support needs (COVCARES-AB/BC)                                     | $328,376                                                                |
| Jia Hu                 | University of Calgary | Changing COVID-19 Behaviors through a data-driven targeted marketing campaign ([19 to Zero](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/19-to-Zero)) | $392,080                                                                |
| Mark Lewis             | University of Alberta | Predicting and managing COVID-19 pandemic dynamics using machine learning                                                                      | $220,545 (supported through the Pfizer-Alberta Collaboration in Health) |
| Ken Parhar             | University of Calgary | The Evaluation of a PRONe Positioning Knowledge Translation Toolkit in COVID-19 ARDS (PRONTO) study                                            | $362,285                                                                |
| Puneeta Tandon         | University of Alberta | Reconnecting vulnerable outpatients with multidisciplinary care – an RCT assessing online programming in the time of COVID-19                  | $326,297                                                                |

## Organization

AI operates two subsidiary companies; C-FER Technologies and InnoTech Alberta. It also runs the Alberta Foundation for Health Research.[\[3\]](#fn3)

C-FER works in partnership with the global energy industry, while InnoTech works with environmental, biological, and energy technology companies.

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=alberta%5Finnovates)
- [Website](https://albertainnovates.ca/)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%5FInnovates)

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1. Brunner, D. (2018, November 26). *Alberta Government and Pfizer Canada boosts provincial collaborative health innovation partnership with Alberta Innovates.* Alberta Innovates. <https://archive.ph/1ppaw> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. Semeniuk, R. (2020, September 10). *Alberta Innovates injects $2.1 M into COVID Research.* Alberta Innovates. <https://web.archive.org/web/20221026201102/https://albertainnovates.ca/impact/newsroom/alberta-innovates-injects-2-1-million-into-covid-research/> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Alberta Foundation For Health Research.* Charitable Impact. Retrieved October 26, 2022, from <https://archive.ph/7dBQu> [↩︎](#fnref3)