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Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network
 

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About CBMRN  I  Mission  I  Structure

About CBMRN

The Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network (CBMRN) brings together the diverse expertise of numerous Canadian researchers and international collaborators within the framework of an ambitious research program. The outcome of this program provides the Canadian dairy industry with new tools and knowledge to improve udder health and milk quality, as well as to reduce the significant economic losses due to mastitis.
 
2009 Scientific Annual Meeting
The CBMRN was created in 2001, as a result of dairy farmers wishing to develop a nation-wide mastitis research network. The purpose of this network was to bring together the various Canadian experts, through the creation of a new entity that would find solutions to this disease, which has a significant economic impact on the Canadian dairy industry. The strength of a research network resides in the synergy generated by the pooling of ideas, knowledge and resources. In 2002, thanks to funding from Valorisation-Recherche Québec, CBMRN researchers combined their efforts with Canadian dairy farmers to prepare an important research proposal, which would become the foundation of the present Network. Consequently, the funding for the 2006-2012 period comes mainly from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and from Canadian dairy farmers, who are active in all of the Network’s activity sectors since day one.
 
The advantages of creating and financing a research network are:
  • To ensure the coordination and complementarity of Canadian research expertise and resources regarding mastitis with researchers in corresponding areas of study within a unique national research focus;
  • To generate an important financial leverage effect through private partners contributions;
  • To strengthen the foundation for future research advancements by generating new knowledge and resources while, at the same time, training a new generation of young researchers in Canada.

Mission

To mobilize national and international scientific and financial resources to decrease the incidence of mastitis, reduce financial losses, and maintain milk quality through concerted research, and effective and rapid transfer of results to end-users.

Structure

The CBMRN is administered by a Steering Committee, whose members approve budgets and oversee the proper operation and success of the organization. They determine the Network’s overall orientations and promote its outreach.
 
2008 Transfer Committee
The Network’s research activities are supervised and evaluated annually by a Scientific Committee.  Its members make necessary recommendations to the Steering Committee in order to ensure good financial management and the success of the research projects.
 
The CBMRN relies on a Transfer Committee to optimize the transfer of knowledge through the search and use of new dissemination channels and to provide guidance for the creation of new tools for the prevention and control of mastitis.
 
An administrative team, located at the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire of the Université de Montréal in Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec) is responsible for the administration of the research funds, the monitoring of projects and the development of knowledge transfer activities.


 




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