OTTAWA, ONTARIO — The Canada Research Chairs Program helps Canada attract and retain some of the world’s best minds. To realize their full research potential, they need access to top-of-the-line research facilities. That is why today, 28 new Canada Research Chairs at 18 institutions across the country are receiving more than $6 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for cutting-edge tools.
Daniel Durocher from the University of Toronto, for example, is receiving almost $400,000 for equipment that will help him improve cancer therapies by delving into how damaged chromosomes are repaired.
At St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., Katie Aubrecht will receive funding to establish the Intersectional Disability Studies Research Lab for work on policies and practices that will enhance the quality of mental health care for diverse populations living in Atlantic Canada’s rural communities.
Read: Canada Research Chairs recipient list (November 2018)
CFI investments of $6,784,319 are being made through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund, in partnership with the Government of Canada’s Canada Research Chairs Program. This fund allows universities to attract top talent in diverse fields of research by providing them with state-of-the art infrastructure that allows them to think big and innovate. An additional $1,565,612 is being awarded under the Infrastructure Operating Fund, which helps institutions with operating and maintenance costs associated with the new infrastructure.
“At the CFI we are proud to provide the infrastructure, which is the foundation for excellence in research,” says Roseann O’Reilly Runte, President and CEO of the CFI. “When we equip our researchers for success, we enable them to contribute to a better future.”
Cumulative totals
John R. Evans Leaders Fund
Funding for infrastructure associated with a Canada Research Chair
List of approved projects by institution
Chairholder |
Project title
|
Maximum CFI contribution
|
|
Cape Breton University
|
|
Sparling, Heather
|
Maintaining a Cutting Edge: The Rotary Music Performance Room & Digitization Lab
|
$68,157
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$68,157
|
|
Concordia University
|
|
Glatard, Tristan
|
Big Data Infrastructures for Neuroinformatics
|
$100,000
|
|
Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël
|
Empirical Software Engineering for the IoT
|
$107,053
|
|
Kachroo, Aashiq
|
Systematic Engineering of Human Genetic Processes in Simplified Cells
|
$120,000
|
|
Total
|
3
|
$327,053
|
|
Dalhousie University
|
|
Finkel, Zoe
|
Marine Microbial Macroecology Lab
|
$125,000
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$125,000
|
|
McGill University
|
|
George, Saji
|
Safety Assessment of Ingested Nanomaterials Using Next Generation Toxicology Approach
|
$165,000
|
|
Harrington, Matthew
|
Development and Fabrication of Next Generation Materials Inspired by Nature
|
$240,000
|
|
Quail, Daniela
|
Role of the obesity-associated inflammation on cancer progression
|
$138,445
|
|
Total
|
3
|
$543,445
|
|
McMaster University
|
|
Kho, Michelle
|
Early Rehabilitation to Improve Patient-Centered Outcomes in Critical Care
|
$72,000
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$72,000
|
|
Mount Allison University
|
|
Campbell, Douglas
|
Phytoplankton Physiomics
|
$145,735
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$145,735
|
|
Ontario College of Art and Design University
|
|
Sellen, Katherine
|
Canada Research Chair in Health Design
|
$91,454
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$91,454
|
|
Ryerson University
|
|
Gauntlett, David
|
Canada Research Chair in Creative Innovation and Leadership
|
$52,427
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$52,427
|
|
St. Francis Xavier University
|
|
Aubrecht, Katie
|
Spatializing Care: Intersectional Disability Studies Research Lab
|
$74,991
|
|
Estill, Laura
|
StFX Digital Humanities Centre
|
$74,999
|
|
Total
|
2
|
$149,990
|
|
Trinity Western University
|
|
Sawatzky, Richard
|
Person-Centred e-Health Information System
|
$169,795
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$169,795
|
|
Université du Québec - École nationale d’administration publique
|
|
Bourgeois, Isabelle
|
Chaire de recherche du Canada en évaluation des programmes et politiques
|
48 416 $
|
|
Total
|
1
|
48 416 $
|
|
University of British Columbia (The)
|
|
Jiang, Feng
|
Sustainable Functional Biomaterials
|
$125,000
|
|
Leonid, Sigal
|
Parallel GPU Hardware and Eye Gaze Measurement Device for Large-scale Computer Vision and Machine Learning
|
$125,000
|
|
Williams, Karla
|
Nanoscale Flow Cytometry and Tissue Scanning for use in Cancer Biomarker Discovery and Validation
|
$125,000
|
|
Ye, Ziliang
|
Emergent Electronic Structure and Optical Properties in Two-dimensional Materials
|
$799,139
|
|
Zandstra, Peter
|
Engineering Cell Fate
|
$800,000
|
|
Total
|
5
|
$1,974,139
|
|
University of Lethbridge
|
|
Spencer, Locke
|
Calibration Suite for Far-Infrared Astrophysics Instrumentation
|
$150,000
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$150,000
|
|
University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa
|
|
Rousseaux, Maxime W.
|
Personalized Genomics of Neurodegeneration
|
$369,115
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$369,115
|
|
University of Prince Edward Island
|
|
MacFadyen, Joshua
|
Places of Resilience and Resistance: Geospatial Studies of Rural Modernization in Atlantic Canada, 1945-1971
|
$72,942
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$72,942
|
|
University of Regina
|
|
Gordon, Jennifer
|
Psychoneuroendocrinology Laboratory
|
$40,000
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$40,000
|
|
University of Toronto
|
|
Durocher, Daniel
|
Infrastructure for study of DNA repair: biology, target validation and drug development
|
$397,723
|
|
Total
|
1
|
$397,723
|
|
University of Western Ontario (The)
|
|
Brown, Peter
|
Detecting interstellar meteoroids with radar
|
$221,316
|
|
Khan, Ali
|
Computational neuroimaging
|
$200,000
|
|
Total
|
2
|
$421,316
|
|
TOTAL
|
28 projects
|
$5,218,707
|
NOTE:
As part of this announcement, an additional $1,565,612 was awarded under the Infrastructure Operating Fund, a mechanism that assists institutions with the incremental operating and maintenance costs associated with the new infrastructure.
