茄子直播

Government of Canada provides almost $5 million for 茄子直播 cutting-edge research

Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 John R. Evans Leaders Fund awarded $5 million in total to 19 茄子直播 researchers (photo by James Poremba)

 

Nineteen scholars at the University of Toronto have been awarded almost $5 million to support research in everything from using stem cells to fix injured hearts to creating an advanced laboratory to develop large astronomical telescopes.

鈥淥ur government understands the important role Canada's scientists and researchers play in developing the evidence we need to make decisions that impact our environment, our health, our communities and our economy,鈥 said federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who announced the funds for Toronto-area universities today. 鈥淪trengthening our support for research innovation and infrastructure and improving access to post-secondary education is fundamental to our government's plan for a strong middle class and a growing economy.鈥

The investment was made by the Government of Canada 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 by giving them access to state-of-the-art research tools.

鈥淚鈥檇 like to congratulate our 19 researchers and thank the Government of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation for their continuing support,鈥 said Vivek Goel, 茄子直播鈥檚 vice-president of research and innovation. 鈥淎s recognized leaders in their fields, this funding will help them acquire research infrastructure that is internationally competitive and enable research to be conducted that will lead to significant results for Canadians.

鈥淓very day, our researchers are engaged in an outstanding array of research aimed at tackling real-world challenges that have the potential to benefit all of us. This funding will ensure that work can continue at the highest level.鈥

The John R. Evans Leaders Fund recipients affiliated with 茄子直播 are:

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering 

 

Mohsen Ghafghazi, $150,000, for 鈥淚nvestigating the response of gravelly soils to earthquake loading through large scale cyclic simple shear testing.鈥

 

 



Suresh    Sivanandam, $138,000, for an 鈥淎dvanced optical instrumentation laboratory for large astronomical telescope instrument development.鈥

 

 

Faculty of Arts & Sciences



Mark Wilson, $250,000, for 鈥淚nfrastructure for the study of excitonic materials and the development of nanocrystal-sensitized photon upconversion.鈥

 



Faculty of Dentistry



Boris Hinz, $250,056, for 鈥淒eveloping new strategies and technologies to fight fibrosis.鈥

 

 


Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education



Tyson Beach, $199,090, for 鈥淢ovement assessment and retraining for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.鈥

 


 



Katherine Tamminen, $61,341, for 鈥淒eveloping the University of Toronto Sport and Performance Psychology Lab.鈥

 

 


University of Toronto Mississauga



Rob Ness, $120,000, for 鈥淗ow recombination alters selection in the genome.鈥

 


 



Michael Phillips, $140,000, for 鈥淐ontrol and adaptive responses of the plant metabolome.鈥

 

 


Faculty of Medicine



Sheena Josselyn, $798,057, for 鈥淥bserving and manipulating brain function.鈥 Josselyn is also a senior scientist at SickKids.

 




David Andrews, $615,894, for 鈥淗igh content screening to identify and validate potential therapeutic targets.鈥 Professor Andrews is also a director and senior scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute.

 

 

 

Deryk Beal, $108,791, for 鈥淣on-invasive brain stimulation for speech and language development.鈥 Beal is also a clinician-scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute.

 

 



Bryan Coburn, $259,938, for 鈥淧ersonalized microbiology, infection and immunity. Coburn is also a clinician-scientist at the University Health Network.

 

 

 

Alan Davidson, $399,980, for 鈥淓lectron microscopy for the engineering of novel bactericidal nanomachines derived from bacteriophages.鈥

 


 

 

James Ellis, $188,744, for 鈥淪tem cell derived neuron phenotyping and drug screening platform.鈥 Ellis is also a senior scientist at SickKids.

 


 



Adam Gehring, $218,378, for 鈥淚mmunotherapy for chronic viral hepatitis.鈥 Gehring is also a scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, UHN.

 

 

 

David Jaffray, $396,428, for 鈥淩obotic radiobiology.鈥 Jaffray is also senior scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN.

 


 

 

Michael Laflamme, $214,569, for 鈥淩emuscularization of injured hearts using stem cells.鈥 Laflamme is also a senior scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, UHN.    

 


 

 

Tracy McGaha, $398,219, for 鈥淟aboratory for mechanistic studies of myeloid-driven immune suppression. McGaha is also a senior scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN.

 

 

 

Darlene     Reid, $75,000, for 鈥淩ehabilitation aimed at muscle performance (RAMP).

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