Kenneth Standing and Werner Ens from the University of Manitoba have won the Manning Innovation Award, which has been recognising and encouraging innovation in Canada since 1982. The award is given to Canadians who have demonstrated recent innovative talent in developing and successfully marketing a new concept, process or procedure.

“We are extremely proud of these outstanding University of Manitoba researchers,” said David Barnard, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. “They conducted some truly remarkable work and through their collaboration with the University’s Technology Transfer Office and industry partners they have contributed to improved diagnostics and also to our understanding of how our bodies work at the molecular level. Receiving this prestigious national award is a well-deserved honour for this research team.”

Standing and Ens won for advancing the field of time-of-flight mass spectrometry. They introduced significant improvements in the way the ions are cooled and injected into a ToF mass spectrometer, allowing for a clearer picture of a compound's composition. This enables analysis of more complex mixtures with better sensitivity to trace amounts of the molecules of interest.

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