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138,3 millions de dollars pour l'établissement de 137 nouvelles chaires de recherche du Canada
le 5 avril 2004
Communiqué - Les Chaires de recherche du Canada
Canada Research Chairs Infrastructure Fund /
Fonds d’infrastructure pour les Chaires de recherche du Canada
| Institution / Établissement | Projects Approved / Projets appuyés |
| Acadia University | 2 |
| Brock University | 1 |
| Carleton University | 1 |
| Concordia University | 7 |
| Dalhousie University | 2 |
| Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal | 1 |
| McGill University | 4 |
| McMaster University | 2 |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | 1 |
| Nova Scotia Agricultural College | 1 |
| Queen’s University | 6 |
| Simon Fraser University | 3 |
| St. Francis Xavier University | 2 |
| Université Laval | 5 |
| Université de Moncton | 1 |
| Université de Montréal | 4 |
| Université de Sherbrooke | 2 |
| Université du Québec École de technologie supérieure | 1 |
| Université du Québec Institut nationale de la recherché scientifique | 1 |
| Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | 1 |
| Université du Québec à Montréal | 4 |
| Université du Québec à Rimouski | 1 |
| Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | 1 |
| University College of the Cariboo | 1 |
| University of Alberta | 1 |
| University of British Columbia (The) | 18 |
| University of Calgary (The) | 4 |
| University of Guelph | 2 |
| University of New Brunswick / Université du Nouveau-Brunswick | 2 |
| University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa | 1 |
| University of Prince Edward Island | 2 |
| University of Saskatchewan | 1 |
| University of Toronto | 12 |
| University of Victoria | 2 |
| University of Waterloo | 1 |
| University of Western Ontario (The) | 6 |
| Total 36 institutions / établissements | 107 |
Canada Research Chairs Infrastructure Fund /
Fonds d’infrastructure pour les Chaires de recherche du Canada
List of Approved Projects by Institution /
Liste des projets appuyés par établissement
| Chairholder / Chaire de recherche |
Project title / Titre du projet | Maximum CFI Contribution / Contribution maximale de la FCI |
| Acadia University | ||
| Leiter, Michael | Enhanced Infrastructure to Support the Centre for Organizational Research and Development | $50,323 |
| Chipman, Hugh | Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computation | $117,649 |
| Total | 2 | $167,972 |
| Brock University | ||
| Pilkington, Melanie | Infrastructure for Advanced Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science | $177,002 |
| Total | 1 | $177,002 |
| Carleton University | ||
| Vincter, Manuella | Carleton Data and Analysis Centre for ATLAS Grid Computing | $138,405 |
| Total | 1 | $138,405 |
| Concordia University | ||
| Rapport, Nigel | The Concordia Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies | $38,213 |
| Zeng, Yong | Computing Environment for New CAD Paradigms Supporting Product Conceptual Design | $45,902 |
| Ellenbogen, Mark | Laboratory for the Longitudinal Study of Stress, Emotional Information Processing, and Behavioral Adaptation | $58,740 |
| Narayanswamy , Sivakumar | Interferometric Optics, Positioning Stages, Holders, Helium Neon Laser, Data Acquisition System & Electronics, and a Femtosecond Laser System | $100,000 |
| Shalev, Uri | Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Environmental Manipulations on the Development of Drug Abuse and Mental Illnesses |
$124,676 |
| Hickey, Donal | Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Comparative Genomics and Genome Evolution | $125,535 |
| Wilds, Christopher | Synthetic and Structural Nucleic Acid Research Facility | $166,542 |
| Total | 7 | $659,608 |
| Dalhousie University | ||
| Chambers, Christine | Distance Monitoring Methods for the Study of Pain and Child Health | $50,630 |
| Toms, Elaine | Information Interaction Laboratory | $125,114 |
| Total | 2 | $175,744 |
| Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal | ||
| Bourgault, Mario | Infrastructure multi-systèmes d’ingénierie de projets de type collaboratifs et distribués | $122,577 |
| Total | 1 | $122,577 |
| McGill University | ||
| Servio, Phillip | Gas Hydrate Research in Energy and Environmental Science | $149,858 |
| Cook, Erik | The Role of the Visual Cortex in Visual Perception | $150,000 |
| Magistretti, Pierre | Beta Microprobe Microprobe, Laser Microdissection System and Real-time RT Quantitative PCR System to Establish a Psychiatric Neuroscience Laboratory | $195,583 |
| Bennewitz, Roland | High-resolution Force Microscopy Combined with Optical Spectroscopy in an Ultra-high Vacuum Environment with Surface Science Tools for the Preparation of Nano-structured Samples | $200,000 |
| Total | 4 | $695,441 |
| McMaster University | ||
| Mothersill, Carmel | Health Effects of Radiation in Human and Non-human Biota | $125,000 |
| Slater, Gregory | Environmental Isotope Biogeochemistry research program: Biogeochemical Controls on Organic Compounds in the Environment | $250,000 |
| Total | 2 | $375,000 |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | ||
| Natcher, David | Infrastructure to Support the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies | $65,200 |
| Total | 1 | $65,200 |
| Nova Scotia Agricultural College | ||
| Benkel, Bernhard | Atlantic Research Centre for Agricultural Genomics (ARCAG) | $125,000 |
| Total | 1 | $125,000 |
| Queen's University | ||
| Stroman, Patrick | Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spinal Cord | $114,057 |
| Melo, Luis | Molecular Physiology Laboratory to Develop Gene and Cell-Based Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease | $125,000 |
| Regan, Sharon | Functional Genomics Laboratory for Analysis of Tree Development | $161,026 |
| Liu, Guojun | Facilities for Polymer Nano-, Micro-, and Super-structure Research | $161,200 |
| Funk, Colin | Eicosanoid-related Molecular, Cellular and Physiological Medical Research | $250,000 |
| Croy, Anne | Mouse Modelling of the Maternal-Fetal Interface | $250,000 |
| Total | 6 | $1,061,283 |
| Simon Fraser University | ||
| McCarthy, Ian | Centre for Biotechnology Management | $107,059 |
| Vocadlo, David | Mass Spectrometry System for Identification and Quantitation of Post-translational Modification of Cellular Proteins | $200,000 |
| Scott, Jamie | Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter for Vaccine Development | $237,000 |
| Total | 3 | $544,059 |
| St. Francis Xavier University | ||
| Gregory, Sharon | Digital Image Database with Imaging Software, for Comparative Research in Art History and Creation of a Database of Illustrations in 16th-C Books; Database of Renaissance Treatises on Art | $70,129 |
| Scrosati, Ricardo | Marine Coastal Ecology in Atlantic Canada | $112,128 |
| Total | 2 | $182,257 |
| Université Laval | ||
| Lavoie, Martin | Création d'un laboratoire de palynologie à l'Université Laval | $80,805 |
| Lachance, Lise | Laboratoire de recherche sur le fonctionnement social et la conciliation des rôles de vie | $87,648 |
| Fortier, Louis | Laboratoire de zooplanctonologie pour l’étude des impacts du réchauffement actuel sur les écosystèmes marins arctiques | $173,551 |
| Maldague, Xavier | Infrastructure LIVE/VIVRE Accompanying the MiViM Proposed Canada Chair, LIVE - Laboratory for Infrared Vision Excellence / VIVRE - Vision Infrarouge : Véhicule de Recherche pour l’Excellence | $203,217 |
| Morin, Charles | Sleep, Neurophysiology, and Chronobiology Laboratory | $241,519 |
| Total | 5 | $786,740 |
| Université de Moncton | ||
| Savoie, Donald | Centre for the Study of Public Administration | $57,815 |
| Total | 1 | $57,815 |
| Université de Montréal | ||
| Crepeau, Francois | Infrastructures pour la Chaire de recherche du Canada en migrations internationales, droits de la personne et État droit | $57,370 |
| Mousseau, Normand | Laboratoire informatique de développpement et de postraitement numérique | $108,086 |
| Thibault, Pierre | Infrastructure for a Bio-analytical Mass Spectrometry and Protein Separation Laboratory | $319,816 |
| Borden, Katherine | Structure-Biophysics Platform for IRIC: NMR and Biophysical Equipment | $1,240,648 |
| Total | 4 | $1,725,920 |
| Université de Sherbrooke | ||
| Bell, Brendan | Multidisciplinary Laboratory in Mechanisms of Gene Expression in Human Pathogenesis | $120,926 |
| Fréchette, Luc | Microengineering Laboratory for MEMS / Laboratoire de Microingénierie pour MEMS | $150,000 |
| Total | 2 | $270,926 |
| Université du Québec École de technologie supérieure | ||
| De Guise, Jacques A. | Appareillage pour l'imagerie et l'évaluation fonctionnelle de l'appareil locomoteur | $114,808 |
| Total | 1 | $114,808 |
| Université du Québec Institut nationale de la recherché scientifique | ||
| Dozois, Charles | Research Infrastructure to Support the Canada Research Chair in Bacterial Infectious Diseases | $73,888 |
| Total | 1 | $73,888 |
| Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | ||
| Koubaa, Ahmed | Laboratoire de caractérisation et de valorisation du bois | $125,000 |
| Total | 1 | $125,000 |
| Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
| Wasmer, Etienne | Imperfections des marchés du travail et équilibres macroéconomiques | $32,882 |
| Berninger, Frank | Ecophysiology/Plant Hydraulic Conductivity Laboratory at the UQAM | $160,008 |
| Barbeau, Benoit | Laboratoire de rétrovirologie humaine | $226,229 |
| Roy, René | Laboratoire de glycochimie médicinale | $260,000 |
| Total | 4 | $679,119 |
| Université du Québec à Rimouski | ||
| Doloreux, David | Aménagement des infrastructures de recherche pour les deux chaires de recherche dans le secteur relié au développement régional | $248,350 |
| Total | 1 | $248,350 |
| Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | ||
| St-Laurent, Diane | Réseau de laboratoires d'observation | $96,451 |
| Total | 1 | $96,451 |
| University College of the Cariboo | ||
| Fraser, Lauchlan | Community and Ecosystem Ecology Centre | $115,241 |
| Total | 1 | $115,241 |
| University of Alberta | ||
| Ballermann, Barbara | Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) Databases Representing Renal Glomerular and Vasa Recta Endothelial Cell Transcriptomes | $75,830 |
| Total | 1 | $75,830 |
| University of British Columbia (The) | ||
| Ridgwell, Andrew | Computing Laboratory for Global Carbon Cycle Modeling and Analysis | $23,752 |
| Kusno, Abidin | The Asian Urban Laboratory | $54,019 |
| Byers, Michael | Virtual Global Issues Research Communications Hub | $77,715 |
| Knight, Darryl | Mechanisms of Airway Disease | $114,416 |
| Barton, Jason | The UBC Neuropsychology Laboratory for Investigation of Human Visual Processing and Ocular Motor Control | $119,978 |
| Sin, Don | The Effects of Systemic Inflammation In Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) | $124,984 |
| Feng, James | Rheological and Optical Instruments for Studying Interfacial Dynamics in Complex Fluids - This Unique Set of Devices will Allow Simultaneous Measurements of Interfacial Morphology and Molecular Order | $126,272 |
| Vallance, Bruce | Laboratory for Research into Gastrointestinal Inflammation | $126,296 |
| Chen, Edith | Infrastructure Support for the UBC Health Disparities Laboratory | $130,000 |
| Xu, Fei | Infrastructure Support for the UBC Cognitive and Language Development Laboratory | $130,000 |
| Oser, Scott | Computing and Optical Calibration Systems for Experimental Neutrino Physics at UBC | $134,922 |
| Wilkinson, David | Fuel Cell Testing and Electrochemical Characterization Infrastructure Capability for Fuel Cell Advancement (Clean Energy Fuel Cell Chair) | $145,000 |
| Schooler, Jonathan | Dissociations of Metaconsciousness | $155,366 |
| Duong, Franck | Facility for Research in Bacterial Envelope Biogenesis, Protein Targeting and Secretion | $179,073 |
| Hammond, Geoffrey | Discovery Platform Technologies for Studies of Biomolecular Interactions | $180,000 |
| Barth, Johannes | Temperature-controlled Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Investigation and Engineering of Molecular Nanosystems | $340,000 |
| Craig, Ann Marie | Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience Fluorescence Imaging and Electrophysiology of Molecularly Engineered Neurons | $395,584 |
| Cashman, Neil | Canada Research Chair in Neurodegeneration and Protein Misfolding Diseases | $399,461 |
| Total | 18 | $2,956,838 |
| University of Calgary (The) | ||
| Cook, Linda | The Establishment of the Cancer Epidemiology Biorepository Unit (CEBU) | $86,441 |
| MacDonald, Justin | Proteomic Equipment for the Study of Smooth Muscle Pathophysiology | $88,821 |
| Keith, David | Carbon Management Technology Development and Analysis Facilities | $101,015 |
| Yong, V Wee | The Study and Control of Neuroinflammation to Enable Recovery from Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injury and Brain Tumors | $162,263 |
| Total | 4 | $438,540 |
| University of Guelph | ||
| King, W. Allan | State-of-the-art Cloning/Transgenesis Workstation, Real-time PCR and Upgraded Image Snalysis Package | $125,000 |
| Ladizhansky, Vladimir | Equipment for NMR Spectrometer Upgrade and Sample Preparation for Structural Studies of Peptides and Proteins | $125,000 |
| Total | 2 | $250,000 |
| University of New Brunswick / Université du Nouveau-Brunswick | ||
| Paterson, Barbara | Laboratory Equipment and Renovation to Support Research in Chronic Illness in Marginalized Populations | $74,911 |
| Rajora, Om | Forest Tree Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology Research Facility | $125,000 |
| Total | 2 | $199,911 |
| University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa | ||
| Mears, Alan | Elucidation of the Key Regulatory Networks & Signaling Pathways Associated with the Development & Function of Mouse Photoreceptors - Applications to Disease & Therapy | $120,000 |
| Total | 1 | $120,00 |
| University of Prince Edward Island | ||
| Berthe, Franck | Mollusc Health Research Laboratory | $125,000 |
| Graziani, Edmund | Centre for Natural Product Isolation and Structure Determination | $125,000 |
| Total | 2 | $250,000 |
| University of Saskatchewan | ||
| Tse, John | High Performance Computing Laboratory | $160,000 |
| Total | 1 | $160,000 |
| University of Toronto | ||
| Jones, Dylan | Improved Understanding of the Impact of Anthropogenic Pollution on the Global Atmosphere: Application of Data Assimilation of Satellite and in Situ Observations for Studies of Global Change | $62,590 |
| Van Lieshout, Pascal | Infrastructure to Study Oral Motor Function Across the Lifespan in Speech and Swallowing | $64,760 |
| Chau, Tom | Paediatric Rehabilitation Intelligent Systems Mobile (PRISM) Laboratory | $66,502 |
| Jenkins, Jennifer | Video-conferencing Facility | $80,400 |
| Leslie, Deborah | Cultural Economy Survey Laboratory | $99,899 |
| Ikura, Mitsuhiko | A Molecular Structure and Cellular Dynamics Laboratory for Signal Transduction Investigations | $124,813 |
| Drucker, Daniel | Equipment in Support of the Canada Research Chair in Regulatory Peptides | $125,000 |
| Frappier, Lori | Infrastructure for Studies on Viral Persistence | $125,000 |
| Rowe, Locke | Controlled Environment Facility | $654,386 |
| Julian, Stephen | A New High-pressure Laboratory for the Study of Quantum Complexity | $297,894 |
| Josselyn, Sheena | The Molecular, Cellular and Systems Bases of Cognitive Function and Dysfunction | $381,097 |
| Smith, Brian Cantwell | Foundations of the Information Age: Support for Interdisciplinary Research on the Conceptual Structure of Information & Computing, Focusing on their use in Multiple Intellectual Disciplines | $122,413 |
| Total | 12 | $2,204,754 |
| University of Victoria | ||
| Chow, Robert | Facility for Molecular and Genetic Studies on Retinal/Eye Development | $231,166 |
| Siemens, Raymond | Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (Supporting the Development of a Prototypical Computing Environment for the Electronic Scholarly Edition and Electronic Books) | $241,401 |
| Total | 2 | $472,567 |
| University of Waterloo | ||
| Kempf, Achim | Physics of Information Lab | $34,720 |
| Total | 1 | $34,720 |
| University of Western Ontario (The) | ||
| Bélanger, Danièle | Tools for Data Collection and Analysis | $37,677 |
| Zhong, Zhen (Robert) | Request to Fund Equipment for Primate Transplantation Research Facility Currently Located in UWO Animal Facility and Will Move to the New, CFI Funded "Innovarium" in 2005 | $118,388 |
| Zhu, Jingxu | Infrastructure Support for Canada Research Chair Program on Powder Technology at UWO | $125,000 |
| Mittler, Silvia | Photonic Surfaces and Interfaces Laboratory | $145,000 |
| Bai, Donglin | Visual-guided Dual Patch Clamp Ratio Imaging and Photo Diode Array Optical Imaging in Brain Slices | $145,000 |
| Konermann, Lars | A Quadrupole Time-of-Flight (Q-TOF) Mass Spectrometer for Exploring Protein Structure, Function and Dynamics | $161,056 |
| Total | 6 | $732,121 |
| TOTAL | 107 projects / projets | $16,679,087 |
