Working within a Tom Baker Cancer Centre research group, Alexei used SQL Server 2005, Visual C# 2005, .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0, and user-friendly GUI to develop a novel analytical software tool for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer from histology specimens.

The tool has significant benefits to the community as it provides an objective, reproducible, and automated measure of the architectural complexity of a tumor which has been shown to be related to tumor grade. Hence, it has the potential to determine a patient’s prognosis and thereby guide the choice of better cancer treatment strategies.

Congratulations Alexei!

Leveraging core expertise in SOA, Apption Software (www.apption.com) developed a new service-oriented application to replace the Canadian Human Rights Commission's cumbersome and outdated Case Management System.

Using Windows Workflow and Communications Foundations from the .NET Framework, Apption's solution can evolve quickly to match changing business requirements while integrating end-to-end with other existing systems and processes. The result? The first production-scale SOA solution using .NET 3.0 for the Government of Canada.

Congratulations go to everyone on team Apption—Mike Kelland, Pascale Morin, Tariq Zaid, Zee Yang, Scott Sherin, Ramsay Eltaher, Sandy Ahluwalia.