Les Burtnick, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Freeze dryer for department facility
NSERC · 1997 · Co-investigator
$85,746
Structures of actin scavenging proteins from blood plasma
NSERC · 1997 · Principal investigator
$48,300
Low pressure liquid chromatography system for chromatography of biological materials
NSERC · 1994 · Principal investigator
$16,926

All 7 grants and awards

No publications available.

Freeze dryer for department facility

Co-investigatorNSERC1997Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Cullen, William

$85,746

Structures of actin scavenging proteins from blood plasma

Principal investigatorNSERC1997Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burtnick, Leslie

$48,300

Low pressure liquid chromatography system for chromatography of biological materials

Principal investigatorNSERC1994Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Burtnick, Leslie

$16,926

Matrix-assisted laser desorption mass spectrometer

Co-investigatorNSERC1994Research Tools and Instruments - Category 2 ($150,000 - $325,000)

Principal investigators: Withers, Stephen

$198,000

Actin-scavenging proteins from blood plasma

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burtnick, Leslie

$92,000

X-ray crystallographic studies of horse plasma gelsolin; visit at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Bilateral Exchange Program (H)

Principal investigators: Burtnick, Leslie

$2,493

Regulation of actin filament assembly and disassembly

Principal investigatorNSERC1990Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burtnick, Leslie

$42,440

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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