The Manning Innovation Awards are awarded by the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation to recognize and encourage

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in Canada. By means of a nomination, Canadian resident citizens, who have demonstrated recent innovative talent in developing and successfully marketing a new concept, process or procedure, may be eligible for a Principal Award ($100,000), Award of Distinction ($25,000), or Innovation Award (2 at $10,000). The Manning Innovation Awards have been granted since 1982. The awards were the idea of David Mitchell, former

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of Alberta Energy Company (a predecessor of the company now called

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). The awards are named for former Alberta Premier

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. As of 2012, almost 250 people have received Manning Awards and almost $4,500,000 has been awarded Since 1992, the foundation has also handed out the Young Canadian Innovation Awards, honoring exceptional student projects from the

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The first winner of the Principal Award in 1982 was Phil Gold for his discovery of

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, now widely used for cancer blood testing. Other notable winners include cardiology researcher Adolfo J. de Bold (1986) for his discovery of the heart hormone

atrial natriuretic peptide Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) or atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a natriuretic peptide hormone secreted from the cardiac atria that in humans is encoded by the ''NPPA'' gene. Natriuretic peptides (ANP, BNP, and CNP) are a family of ho ...

(ANP); endocrinologist Jean Dussault (1988) for developing a test for

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; biologist Yoshio Masui (1990) for work on

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; physicist Kenneth O. Hill (1995) for his work on

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; engineer James McEwen (1997), inventor of the

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-controlled automatic tourniquet system for surgeries; and educational technologist Murray Goldberg (2004) for his development of the

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course management system.

The Young Canadian Award Program

The Young Canadian Program, introduced in 1992, recognizes eight innovative projects selected by a team of judges at the annual

. Each project receives $500, which is presented at the Science Fair award ceremonies. A further judging process then selects four projects from the eight to receive $4,000 Manning Young Canadian Innovation Awards at the annual awards dinner.

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External links

Official Manning Innovation Award Website

List of previous award winners

List of previous young Canadian winners
Canadian science and technology awards Awards established in 1982 1982 establishments in Canada