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Recipients of the 2018 Strategic Partnership Grant for Projects Competition
| Institution | Name Project |
Term | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alberta | Patricia Dolez Graphene-based end-of-life sensors for fire protective fabrics |
3 | $569,500.00 |
| Anastasia Elias Engineering thermally and electrically conductive nanomaterial-polymer composites for thermal sensing applications |
3 | $350,446.00 | |
| Yang Liu Advancing energy recovery from source-diverted municipal wastewater: shaping microbial community through direct interspecies electron transfer |
3 | $572,000.00 | |
| Janice Cooke Western gall rust resistance in pines: using genomics to discover resistance mechanisms and develop new tools for tree breeding |
3 | $619,783.00 | |
| John Vederas Fatal attraction: Engineering and selecting beauveria bassiana fungal strains for targeted biocontrol of Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) |
3 | $687,000.00 | |
| The University of British Columbia | Curtis Berlinguette Electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into synthetic building blocks |
3 | $600,000.00 |
| Steven Hallam Restructuring cyanobacterial metabolism for high-value compound production |
3 | $609,865.00 | |
| Lukas Chrostowski An Integrated Quantum Key Distribution Transceiver using Silicon Photonic Circuits |
3 | $526,500.00 | |
| Vincent Wong Technologies to Support Enhanced Mobile Broadband and Tactile Internet Applications in 5G Wireless Systems |
3 | $515,260.00 | |
| Nicholas Coops Remote mapping and characterization of riparian forests and fish habitat potential using advanced remote sensing approaches |
3 | $552,187.00 | |
| University of Calgary | Paul Barclay Quantum phononic-photonic-spin networking devices |
3 | $532,500.00 |
| Svetlana Yanushkevich MOST: Biometric-enabled Identity Management and Risk Assessment for Smart Cities |
3 | $677,500.00 | |
| Sean Rogers Environmental and genomic consequences of alternative hatchery rearing practices on Pacific Coho salmon survival and enhancement |
3 | $501,079.00 | |
| Carleton University | Gabriel Wainer SUSTAIN: Sensor-based Unified Simulation Techniques for Advanced In-building Networks |
3 | $617,000.00 |
| Dalhousie University | Kevin Plucknett Advanced alloy surface modification using ultrasonic pulsed waterjets |
3 | $599,075.00 |
| Glenn Crossin Interactions between migration, marine survival, and disease susceptibility in Atlantic salmon |
3 | $716,670.00 | |
| Sara Iverson Use of acoustic telemetry and First Nations' traditional knowledge to determine the movements and habitat use of valued aquatic species, and their environmental correlates |
3 | $1,020,793.00 | |
| Markus Kienast Climate and ocean dynamics informing resource management and adaptation policy |
3 | $685,371.00 | |
| École de technologie supérieure | Sylvain Cloutier Ultra-low-cost printed flexible sensors for disruptive IoT applications |
3 | $807,000.00 |
| University of Guelph | Manish Raizada Developing climate change resilient corn and wheat to combat Fusarium disease by enhancing the plant microbiome |
3 | $304,300.00 |
| Merritt Turetsky Improved characterization of permafrost vulnerability to support decision makers, infrastructure, and community stewardship in the Northwest Territories |
3 | $577,020.00 | |
| Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) | Daniel Guay Superaerophobic porous 3D catalytic electrodes for water splitting |
3 | $595,550.00 |
| Jonathan Perreault Electrochemical drug sensing with hydrophobic compound-adapted aptamers |
3 | $589,000.00 | |
| Shuhui Sun Strategies to obtain stable, active and operforming non-PGM catalysts for the reduction of oxygen in H2/Air PEM fuel cells |
3 | $579,000.00 | |
| Claude Fortin Terrestrial-aquatic mobility of technology critical elements in a changing Canadian environment (TAMTeC) |
3 | $623,533.00 | |
| Jose Azana PERSEUS: Programmable Elastic broadband information processors with controlled high precision frequency and time Reference SystEms Using all optical fiberS |
3 | $526,500.00 | |
| Roberto Morandotti Frequency domain nonlinear optical conversion for efficient high-dimensional quantum processing |
3 | $599,600.00 | |
| Roberto Morandotti Optical reservoir computing for machine learning at the speed of light |
3 | $573,000.00 | |
| François Vidal In situ and real-time measurement of platinum group metal concentrations by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy |
3 | $462,700.00 | |
| Université Laval | Grant Vandenberg A novel biofungicide derived from black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larval frass |
3 | $567,607.00 |
| Laurent Bazinet Procédés électromembranaires appliqués à la valorisation du sang d'abattage: mise au point d'un procédé séquentiel de bioproduction et de séparation sélective de peptides bioactif |
3 | $648,358.00 | |
| Louis Bernatchez L'ADN environnemental comme nouvel outil de gestion de la faune piscicole au Québec |
3 | $361,350.00 | |
| Louis Bernatchez Production d'omble de fontaine adaptée aux changements climatiques: évaluation de l'importance des effets épigénétiques |
3 | $530,600.00 | |
| Peter Vanrolleghem Waste2Feed - Resource recovery from bio-waste as high-efficiency fertilizers for food production |
3 | $606,750.00 | |
| University of Manitoba | Emma McGeough Perennial forage grains for fall grazing of beef cattle |
3 | $806,945.00 |
| Jan Oleszkiewicz Aerobic granular sludge in continuous flow reactor configuration |
3 | $357,995.00 | |
| McGill University | George Demopoulos Development of 3D hybrid electrolytes and nanostructured electrodes for scalable manufacturing of new-generation high-energy density solid-state lithium batteries |
3 | $580,500.00 |
| Jun Song Predictive assessment of hydrogen diffusion and segregation in high-strength steels: an ICME approach |
3 | $489,880.00 | |
| Dominic Frigon FECES-TO-FARM: technologies and molecular tools for controlling the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance from humans to animals while recovering fertilizing nutrients |
3 | $591,042.00 | |
| Maryam Tabrizian Aptamer-based surface plasmon resonance detection of legionella pneumophila in water systems |
3 | $469,900.00 | |
| Lawrence Chen Software-defined cloud radio access networks enabled by a reconfigurable general microwave photonics signal processor |
3 | $558,300.00 | |
| David Plant Autonomous Optical Networks that fully exploit System Margins |
3 | $489,450.00 | |
| Dominic Frigon Photoheterotrophy for economical production of bioplastics from municipal organic waste: Integration of polyphosphate metabolism and P-recovery chemistry to maximize PHA yields |
3 | $507,249.00 | |
| Mount Royal University | Michelle DeWolfe Evaluating mineral potential of the Winter Lake greenstone belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories |
3 | $306,250.00 |
| Ontario Institute of Technology (Now Ontario Tech University) | Langis Roy ANR - Reconfigurable Wireless Components Using Field Programmable Microwave Substrates (FPMS) |
3 | $476,500.00 |
| University of Ottawa | Robert Boyd Plasmonic spectral filters from the visible to the far-infrared region |
3 | $755,500.00 |
| Pawel Hawrylak Electron-spin-based Quantum Circuits in 2D Materials (QC2DM) |
3 | $891,672.00 | |
| Karin Hinzer ASPIRE: Arctic solar photovoltaics: innovation for renewable energy |
3 | $702,094.00 | |
| Queen’s University | Richard Oleschuk Advanced sample introduction methods for mass spectrometry |
3 | $734,600.00 |
| Hossam Hassanein Machine Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for 5G Networks and Beyond |
3 | $593,000.00 | |
| Kerry Rowe Geosynthetic liners for sustainable development of Arctic mineral resources |
3 | $587,351.00 | |
| Université de Sherbrooke | Soumaya Cherkaoui Enabling IoT Analytics across Edge and Cloud Platforms |
3 | $480,500.00 |
| Simon Fraser University | Carlo Menon Seamless interaction |
3 | $505,823.00 |
| Oliver Schulte Reinforcement Learning for Sports Analytics |
3 | $570,633.00 | |
| University of Toronto | Peter Herman 3D Additive/subtractive laser manufacturing of photonic circuit and sensor micro-systems |
3 | $651,960.00 |
| Wai Tung Ng MOST - Manufacturing and applications of GaN power semiconductor devices/modules |
3 | $590,042.00 | |
| Yu Sun Development of new techniques for high-speed and high-accuracy industrial part metrology |
3 | $495,886.00 | |
| Keiko Yoshioka Development of bacteria-based plant immunity activators |
3 | $491,495.00 | |
| Sean Hum Innovative Satellite Antennas for Emerging M2M/IoT applications |
3 | $473,775.00 | |
| Erin Bobicki Novel strategies for CO2 utilization and storage in mineral processing |
3 | $471,230.00 | |
| Carl Mitchell Identifying and evaluating the effectiveness of best management practices to mitigate mercury contamination in managed forests |
3 | $584,870.00 | |
| Trent University | Céline Guéguen Advancing clean water treatment technology through euglena transcriptome modulation and metabolome mining |
3 | $797,104.00 |
| University of Waterloo | Hamid Jahed Cost-effective lightweight complex-shaped structural components made of magnesium: A hybrid manufacturing paradigm |
3 | $747,000.00 |
| Yuning Li Polymers for lightweight and environmentally stable flexible solar cells |
3 | $582,000.00 | |
| Pavle Radovanovic Electroluminescent metal oxide quantum dot devices for sustainable solid state lighting technologies |
3 | $772,280.00 | |
| Brian Dixon Genetic and probiotic improvement of immunity in triploid Chinook salmon |
3 | $556,000.00 | |
| Philippe Van Cappellen Assessing risks of eutrophication by urban stormwater runoff under climate change |
3 | $676,569.00 | |
| Guang Gong Security and Privacy for Hybrid Centralized and Blockchain Computing in the Internet of Things |
3 | $557,150.00 | |
| University of Western Ontario | François Lagugné-Labarthet Development of a super-resolution stochastical optical reconstruction raman microscope for online nanoscale electronic and photonics devices quality control |
3 | $509,493.00 |
| Mark Bernards Changes in ginsenosides and soil biodiversity related to management of ginseng replant disease |
3 | $660,802.00 | |
| Abdallah Shami Smart Virtualized Platform for Cloud Management Systems |
3 | $486,000.00 | |
| Danielle Way Integrating acclimation capacity of tree species into assessments of climate change impacts on Canada's boreal forest productivity |
3 | $637,720.00 | |
| Wilfrid Laurier University | Stephanie DeWitte-Orr Using phytoglycogen to deliver long dsRNA molecules as an antiviral drug in shrimp |
3 | $719,692.00 |
| University of Windsor | Christopher Weisener Application of targeted transcriptomics for determining early nutrient sediment retention capacity (NSRC) |
3 | $622,200.00 |
| York University | Sergey Krylov Technologies to enable automated manufacturing of validated pharmaceutical hits |
3 | $952,217.00 |