With a hub of research excellence that combines cutting-edge facilities with a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration, USask has created "an amazing ecosystem that allows innovation to move at an ever-faster speed," says Baljit Singh, the university's vice-president, Research.
Part of this momentum is driven by synergies, where insights from one area of research create ripple effects across multiple domains, and one example comes from the work of Dr. Chris Phenix, an associate professor of chemistry who leads the Phenix Research Group.
"Dr. Phenix looks at proteases, or enzymes, that are functional across multiple organisms, from plants to animals to humans," says Dr. Singh. "This is quite ground-breaking, because there are some shared tools that allow us to decipher genomic components and predict how they might influence biology - and how, when they go sideways, they may cause disease or abnormality in any of these systems."
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