Health committee  I can give a short answer. As my colleagues said, we are not asking for more money. When we said that IRAP should be changed, that means you need better specialists for the evaluation of ideas. Also, when it comes to CIHR, we are not asking for more money, but for more focused st

Health committee  I can stay until 12:15 or 12:20.

Health committee  You can't get rid of me directly.

Health committee  Deputy Minister Yeates shifted the meeting to 12:30. That means I can stay another 20 minutes. We just received an e-mail. I have a little more time. I'll be leaving on time. Thank you.

Health committee  I discussed this last Saturday. My feeling on the NRC's IRAP is that it is not a very effective program for small companies.

Health committee  IRAP is not very effective. There is a similar program in the United States. Normally I don't refer to the other side of the border, but it seems that the SBIR program in the U.S. is a little bit more effective when it comes to support in the scientific start for small and medi

Health committee  I will try to answer that. We have several pharmaceutical companies, of course, as you would expect, from the U.S. They are coming over to use the synchrotron. They are doing protein crystallography for drug development, and that's the end of our knowledge. They are not telling u

Health committee  There are two ways. We have access to a normal peer review process when you're publishing things, and we have an access that Dr. Cutler is responsible for, which is the industrial access, based on a fee for service or on paying for using the beam time. Then you are not forced to

Health committee  Yes, I have one minute more and then I'm at the end.

Health committee  Okay. We have a broad range of users who are using what is called protein crystallography, that is, detecting the three-dimensional structure of viruses and various diseases. They are in many cases connected to drug development, but it's basic research. The diagnostic techniqu

Health committee  That's okay, I'm at the end.

Health committee  I have a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Health at 12.

Health committee  Thank you. My director of industrial research is joining me and he will stay longer. If there are additional questions, he should know everything I know and he can answer the questions.

Health committee  Thank you very much. I am representing Canadian Light Source. Therefore, my presentation will focus on the potential applications and realistic applications of synchrotron light for health research. I am not sure if all members of the committee have visited Canadian Light Sourc