Dr. Anatoli Ianoul received an award from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation for $114,748 to acquire state of the art experimental facilities: an Atomic Force Microscope and a UV resonance Raman spectroscopic system to expand his study of antimicrobial peptides. These new facilities will allow Professor Ianoul and his team to use the most recent advances in nanotechnology and will therefore enable investigations of antimicrobial peptides at the resolution level and sensitivity that were not available before.