Government awards $5.7 million for 茄子直播 research
A researcher studying how chronic pain changes brain circuitry is among 27 scholars at the University of Toronto sharing $5.7 million in funding from the Government of Canada.
The money for state-of-the-art research tools is through the Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 John R. Evans Leaders Fund, which is designed to help universities attract and retain the best and brightest researchers from around the world.
The 茄子直播 projects were among 220 new infrastructure projects worth more than $52 million at 51 universities announced by the government today at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont.
鈥淥ur scientists need the best tools and equipment for ground-breaking research and discovery, and we are committed to ensuring they have them,鈥 said federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan in a news release.
鈥淭heir successes will lead to an improved economy and will fuel an active research community here in Canada and internationally.鈥
To date, the John R. Evans Leaders Fund has awarded almost $11 million this year to 茄子直播 scholars to support their research in a number of areas, from using stem cells to fix injured hearts to creating an advanced laboratory to develop large astronomical telescopes.
鈥淎s Canada鈥檚 top globally ranked research university, it is imperative for 茄子直播 researchers to have access to state-of-the-art tools and labs to foster their search for breakthroughs to real-world challenges,鈥 said Vivek Goel, 茄子直播鈥檚 vice-president of research and innovation.
鈥淚鈥檇 like to congratulate our 27 researchers and thank the Government of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation for their continuing support.鈥
The John R. Evans Leaders Fund recipients affiliated with 茄子直播 are:
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Lisa Strug, of the Hospital for Sick Children, $340,200 for 鈥淒e Novo assembled and phased whole genome sequence for the Canadian cystic fibrosis population.鈥
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
Erin Bobicki, of the department of materials science & engineering, $122,250 for 鈥渟ustainable mineral processing laboratory.鈥
Marianne Hatzopoulou, of the department of civil engineering, $200,000 for 鈥渃haracterization of exhaust emissions from on-road vehicles using portable emission monitoring systems (PEMS).鈥
Naomi Matsuura, of the department of materials science & engineering, $172,250 for 鈥渦ltrasound-activated nanobiomaterial synthesis and characterization laboratory.鈥
Marianne Touchie, of the department of civil engineering, $122,250 for a 鈥渓aboratory for building energy and indoor environment research.鈥
Lesley Warren, of the department of civil engineering, $232,000 for 鈥渘ew mining, water and environment facility: innovating practice, improving sustainability.鈥
Masayuki Yano, of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, $140,250 for 鈥渁dvanced research computing cluster for the development of next-generation PDE algorithms.鈥
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Michael Mack, of the department of psychology, $150,000 for 鈥渢he mutual influence of attention and knowledge formation in successful learning.鈥
Jennifer Ryan, of the department of psychology, the department of psychiatry and Baycrest, $148,039 for 鈥渞oles of neural, physiological and behavioural variability in cognitive health.鈥
Margaret Schlichting, of the department of psychology, $130,000 for 鈥渓inking memory and reasoning in the developing human brain.鈥
Faculty of Medicine
William Derry, of the department of molecular genetics and the Hospital for Sick Children, $488,064 for 鈥渙ptogenetic analysis of the molecular pathogenesis of cerebral cavernous malformations using super-resolution.鈥
Mathieu Lupien, of the department of medical biophysics and University Health Network, $777,119 for 鈥渢arget screening and immuno-profiling platform for difficult to treat cancers.鈥
Karen Maxwell, of the department of biochemistry, $150,000 for 鈥渋nvestigation of bacteriophage contributions to bacterial virulence and microbiome dynamics.鈥
Helen McNeill, of the department of molecular genetics and the Sinai Health System, $472,533 for 鈥渄issecting tissue growth and organization at the single cell level.鈥
Philippe Monnier, of the department of physiology and the University Health Network, $366,237 for 鈥渢ranslational research pipeline for retinal and neurodegenerative diseases.鈥
Arthur Mortha, of the department of immunology, $240,000 for 鈥渁 research platform to study the compartmentalized crosstalk of host and microbiota.鈥
Jason Moffat, of the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, $110,000 for 鈥渉igh-throughput flow cytometry capacity for functional genomics, proteomics and biologics development.鈥
Ori Rotstein, of the department of surgery and St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital, $343,897 for 鈥渕echanistic characterization and clinical therapeutic interventions in critical illness.鈥
University of Toronto Mississauga
Katharina Braeutigam, of the department of biology, $100,000 for 鈥渢he relationship between genome, epigenome and plant performance.鈥
Loren Martin, of the department of psychology, $110,000 for 鈥渢he modification of brain circuits by chronic pain and its effect on behaviour.鈥
Bailey McMeans, of the department of biology, $100,000 for 鈥渦sing seasonal variation to connect fish physiology and behaviour with ecosystem-level energy and contaminant flow.鈥
Jennifer Stellar, of the department of psychology, $75,000 for 鈥減rosocial emotions laboratory.鈥
University of Toronto Scarborough
Ashton Anderson, of the department of computer and mathematical sciences, $76,000 for 鈥渃omputational social science lab.鈥
Blair Armstrong, of the department of psychology, $100,000 for 鈥渁dvancing neural network accounts of cross-linguistic differences, language learning and ambiguity resolution.鈥
Brett Ford, of the department of psychology, $100,000 for 鈥渁ffective science and health laboratory: integrated and dynamic assessment of experience, behaviour and physiology.鈥
Gennady Pekhimenko, of the department of computer and mathematical sciences, $85,000 for 鈥渉eterogeneous systems laboratory.鈥
Ruby May Sullan, of the department of physical & environmental sciences, $195,294 for 鈥渋ntegrated atomic force microscopy (AFM)-optical microscopy facility for the nanoscale study of microbial biofilms.鈥