Research Stories

UM and UBC lead groundbreaking research to improve gut health

June 23, 2024 | Publication | University of Manitoba

Featured project(s):

• Engineering a new interferon lambda therapy for gastrointestinal diseases

UM-led research paves way for climate adaptive food systems for Indigenous and marginalized groups

June 21, 2024 | Publication | University of Manitoba

Featured project(s):

• Reimagining Food Systems for Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, and Social Justice

International, Indigenous-led consortium receives $2.75M in New Frontiers in Research Funding for climate research

June 11, 2024 | Publication | University of Alberta

Featured project(s):

• Relational Accountability of Mother Earth: Revitalizing and Restoring the Land and Water

Connecting climate change to food systems and health in Indigenous communities

June 7, 2024 | Publication | University of Northern British Columbia

Featured project(s):

• The Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network (IPON): The Climate-Food-Health Nexus

Government of Canada invests $6M in climate change adaptation and interdisciplinary research at McGill

June 5, 2024 | Publication | McGill University

Featured project(s):

• A Collaboratively Designed and Managed Flood Resilience Framework for Affected Communities in the Caribbean Region
• WhaleAdapt: Adaptation of vulnerable subsistence-based North Atlantic communities from the tropics to the Arctic to marine mammal redistribution under climate change

NSF Awards Mortenson Center In International Climate Change Research Competition

June 5, 2024 | Publication | Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience

Featured project(s):

• Community water systems: Climate vulnerabilities and resilience opportunities

Elisabeth Gilmore: Equitable Climate Adaptation Pathways for the Precariously Housed

June 5, 2024 | Publication | Carleton University

Featured project(s):

• Transforming places for the precariously housed: Equitable adaptation pathways for climate mobilities

Research project led by the University of Windsor aims to revolutionize brain cancer treatment

June 5, 2024 | Publication | CKLW Radio, Windsor

Featured project(s):

• Implantable Electronics and E-Theranostics: A Paradigm Shift in Brain Cancer Management

Project to advance sensor combining cancer detection and treatment

June 5, 2024 | Publication | University of Windsor

Featured project(s):

• Implantable Electronics and E-Theranostics: A Paradigm Shift in Brain Cancer Management

McMaster researchers receive $3.2 million in New Frontiers in Research Fund grants

June 4, 2024 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategies (CLARS): Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities among Urban Migrants in the Lake Victoria Basin and Great Lakes Region
• Constrained Spectral Clustering-guided Controlled Islanding: A Radical Approach to Canada’s Wildfire Risk Management in the Age of Climate Change
• Strategies for near-atomic protein mapping on biomaterials
• Challenging the Status Quo: Implementing Green Care Farms in Canada to Enhance Quality of Life for Persons with Dementia
• Development of a novel advanced low-cost non-invasive tool operated by non-experts for large-scale cardiovascular health diagnosis
• Towards Trustworthy AI that Aids Radiologists in Mammogram Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach using AI, Healthcare Data Science, and Ethics in Technology
• Development of a machine learning approach for the discovery of antimicrobial proteins
• Investigating oxidative stress and cellular function as biomarkers of preeclampsia subtypes using placenta-on-a-chip

Advancing high-risk, high-reward research

June 4, 2024 | Publication | Queen’s University

Featured project(s):

• Fatty acid therapy to enhance skeletal muscle health in older adults
• Leveraging ambient ionization mass spectrometry for the development of a high-throughput genetic engineering platform
• Engineering living photosynthetic algal-based wound dressing for chronic wounds
• Addressing immunobiology of the sexes to correct failures and strengthen safety of medical devices: Surgical mesh as the prototype

Professor Gail Krantzberg receives $1.5M grant to investigate effects of urban migration due to climate change

June 4, 2024 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategies (CLARS): Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities among Urban Migrants in the Lake Victoria Basin and Great Lakes Region

Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Climate-Induced Migration of Biting Flies in Arctic Regions

June 4, 2024 | Publication | Centre for Ecosystem Management, University of Guelph

Featured project(s):

• Kitikmeot Biting Insect Monitoring and Research Program

USask researchers consider pigs for organ transplantation

June 4, 2024 | Publication | Saskatchewan Now.com

Featured project(s):

• Novel Approaches to Generating Transgenic Pigs Suitable for Organ Xenotransplantation

Government of Canada awards $2.9 million to Laurier researchers through New Frontiers in Research Fund

June 3, 2024 | Publication | Wilfrid Laurier University

Featured project(s):

• Remitting for Resilience (R2): Enhancing Food Security and Climate Adaptation Through Gender-Inclusive Migrant Remittances
• Developing plant biofactories for aquaculture RNA therapeutics
• Building modular circuits with bioengineered neural tissues to design brain-inspired artificial intelligences

TMU professors receive funding for transformative research projects

June 3, 2024 | Publication | Toronto Metropolitan University

Featured project(s):

• Building resilience: How conservation agriculture can help smallholder women farmers adapt to climate change
• Nano-isotopes for Nano-medicine: Synthesis of light-element isotopes in nano-scale for Next Generation biomedical applications

Canada announces $6.1M for York-led international research collaborations

June 3, 2024 | Publication | York University

Featured project(s):

• BioCAM4 - Biodiversity Integration in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Actions for Planet, People, and Human Health
• Climate Change Adaptation, Dispossession and Displacement (ADD): Co-constructing Solutions with Coastal Vulnerable Groups in Africa and Asia
• Climate changed transportation: holistic and Indigenous informed responses to transportation infrastructure, food security, and community well-being in the Arctic

Government of Canada invests $6M in climate change adaptation and interdisciplinary research at McGill

June 3, 2024 | Publication | McGill University

Featured project(s):

• A Collaboratively Designed and Managed Flood Resilience Framework for Affected Communities in the Caribbean Region
• WhaleAdapt: Adaptation of vulnerable subsistence-based North Atlantic communities from the tropics to the Arctic to marine mammal redistribution under climate change

World-leading UVic climate research gets a $4M boost

June 3, 2024 | Publication | University of Victoria

Featured project(s):

• Increasing local preparedness to Sargassum tides in the Amazon and Mesoamerican reef through enhanced monitoring and blue economies
• Inuit-Led Adaptation to the Breakdown of Arctic Sea Ice for Community Resilience and Travel Security

UVic researchers test community climate solutions

June 3, 2024 | Publication | University of Victoria

Featured project(s):

• Increasing local preparedness to Sargassum tides in the Amazon and Mesoamerican reef through enhanced monitoring and blue economies
• Inuit-Led Adaptation to the Breakdown of Arctic Sea Ice for Community Resilience and Travel Security

Transformative Adaptation: Managed Retreat as a Proactive Climate Resilience Strategy Receives $2.5M in Funding

June 3, 2024 | Publication | University of Waterloo

Featured project(s):

• Retreating from risk (RFR): Decision-supports for the equitable implementation of retreat to build climate resilience

Dr. Theresa Pauly aims to enhance older adults’ preparedness for extreme heat amid global climate change

June 3, 2024 | Publication | Simon Fraser University

Featured project(s):

• A Comprehensive approach to enhance Older adults’ Preparedness for Extreme heat (COPE)

UNBC project focused on connecting climate change to Indigenous health

June 3, 2024 | Publication | Prince George Citizen

Featured project(s):

• The Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network (IPON): The Climate-Food-Health Nexus

SPHS researchers awarded $1.5 million for urban futures project

June 3, 2024 | Publication | University of Waterloo

Featured project(s):

• “The Urban Futures project” Toward health equity, inclusive governance, and climate adaptation in African informal settlements

Researchers, including Integrative Biology’s Dr. Sarah Adamowicz and Dr. Joey Bernhardt, awarded $250,000 to track biting flies in the Arctic

June 3, 2024 | Publication | University of Guelph

Featured project(s):

• Kitikmeot Biting Insect Monitoring and Research Program

USask researchers exploring pig possibilities for organ transplantation

June 3, 2024 | Publication | University of Saskatchewan

Featured project(s):

• Novel Approaches to Generating Transgenic Pigs Suitable for Organ Xenotransplantation

Sudbury-designed construction robot prepping for first home build in 2024

November 24, 2023 | Publication | Northern Ontario Business

Featured project(s):

• Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration as a Catalyst for Creative Economy, Community Outreach and Emerging Design-Build Solutions in Ontario's North

A conversation with Ărramăt Indigenous leaders and scholars on holistic healing and physical-spiritual relationships with Mother Nature

October 11, 2023 | Publication | University of Manitoba

Featured project(s):

• Ărramăt: Strengthening Health and Well-Being through Indigenous-Led Conservation and Sustainable Relationships with Biodiversity

McMaster scientists and local artists team up for innovative exhibition

September 7, 2023 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• The Art of Creation

IBET Momentum Fellow Raylene Mitchell aims to change how engineering is done in northern and Indigenous communities

August 24, 2023 | Publication | University of Toronto

Featured project(s):

• CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal storage of renewable energy

Social sciences and humanities at the forefront: leading high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research

August 15, 2023 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• Safe and Sustainable Development of Space
• Indigenous Approaches to the Western Literary and Visual Canon
• Ecological Devastation in Extractive Zones: Resistance, Recuperation and Regeneration

Adaptable clean-energy technology revolutionizes the fight against climate change

August 14, 2023 | Publication | University of Calgary

Featured project(s):

• CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal storage of renewable energy

A made-in-Canada tool to fight cancer

August 4, 2023 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• Rare Isotopes to Transform Cancer Therapy

Invention enables early airborne virus detection

August 3, 2023 | Publication | Michigan State University

Featured project(s):

• Understanding the seasonal impacts of microplastic inhalation on health

The Canadian “Dream Team” Building the Heart of the Future

August 3, 2023 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• Enabling novel cardiac therapies with pluripotent stem cells

Radiopharmaceuticals Offer New Promise to Image and Treat Cancer

July 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Toronto

Featured project(s):

• Rare Isotopes to Transform Cancer Therapy

Study hopes to use music to combat side effects from prescribed medication

July 24, 2023 | Publication | University of Alberta

Featured project(s):

• Effects of music on drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics

The Crudden Effect

July 24, 2023 | Publication | Queen’s University

Featured project(s):

• Protection of Metallic Surfaces from Bulk to Nano Through Molecular-Level Innovation

How scientists and people with lived experience are working together in the fight against brain diseases

July 11, 2023 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• A pipeline approach for the rational design of neuronal lineage conversion approaches to treat neurological disorders

USask research team receives $250,000 for groundbreaking investigation into Saskatchewan wetlands

July 17, 2023 | Publication | University of Saskatchewan

Featured project(s):

• Quantifying and valuing insect emergence and migration from wetlands as a novel ecosystem service

CANSTOREnergy: Making Technology and Community Equal Partners in the Clean Energy Transition

July 11, 2023 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal storage of renewable energy

Turning brain disorder research on its head

July 10, 2023 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• TRIDENT: TRanslational Initiative to DE-risk NeuroTherapeutics

USask researcher trying to unlock mysteries of ‘strange and fascinating’ quantum materials

July 4, 2023 | Publication | University of Saskatchewan

Featured project(s):

• Topology and the Next Generation of Quantum Materials

Can probiotics improve outcomes in knee replacement surgeries?

June 21, 2023 | Publication | Western University

Featured project(s):

• GUt MicroBiome in Orthopaedics: GUMBO Trial

Indigenous-Led AI: How Indigenous Knowledge Systems Could Push AI to be More Inclusive

June 21, 2023 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems

New study using nuclear medicine and rare isotopes in the fight against cancer

June 14, 2023 | Publication | CTV News

Featured project(s):

• Rare Isotopes to Transform Cancer Therapy

New study uses rare isotopes as a tool in the fight against cancer

June 13, 2023 | Publication | Western University

Featured project(s):

• Rare Isotopes to Transform Cancer Therapy

Unlocking a cure for heart disease

May 31, 2023 | Publication | Hospital News

Featured project(s):

• Enabling novel cardiac therapies with pluripotent stem cells

Recovery Curriculum

May 30, 2023 | Publication | Memorial University

Featured project(s):

• Resilient Experiences and Agency of Youth and Children During the Pandemic: Re-visioning Education through Storytelling (REAP)

York collaborates on international post-pandemic recovery research

May 23, 2023 | Publication | York University

Featured project(s):

• Transparency and shared responsibility for sustainable post-pandemic recovery and evidence-informed decision-making during future global emergencies

New federal initiative aiming to increase employment rate of persons with disabilities

May 19, 2023 | Publication | Benefits Canada

Featured project(s):

• Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA)

Lassonde Professor receives NFRF grant to explore 3D and 4D printing in space

May 18, 2023 | Publication | York University

Featured project(s):

• 3D and 4D Laser Metal Additive Manufacturing in Zerogravity and Vacuum for Space Exploration

'Seeing' and 'Feeling': Controlling prosthetic hands with AI

May 11, 2023 | Publication | Memorial University

Featured project(s):

• Next-generation Intelligent Interface for Natural Prosthetic Hand Control

UWinnipeg Canada Research Chair collaborates on national renewable energy project

May 10, 2023 | Publication | University of Winnipeg

Featured project(s):

• CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal storage of renewable energy

University of Lethbridge researchers receive grant to study causes of Alzheimer’s disease

May 10, 2023 | Publication | Lethbridge News

Featured project(s):

• Novel mutant mouse models of the sporadic version of Alzheimer's disease and targeted cannabinoid treatments

TRU research studies brain development in infants

May 9, 2023 | Publication | Thompson Rivers University

Featured project(s):

• Naturalistic mapping of typical and atypical functional connectivity in human brain development

Félicitations à Eva Monson pour l’obtention d’une bourse du Fonds Nouvelles frontières en recherche!

May 9, 2023 | Publication | Institut universitaire sur les dependances

Featured project(s):

• Exploring the effects of a rapidly evolving gambling landscape on socio-economic inequality in gambling related harm: Implications for postpandemic recovery

Nuclear medicine can cure cancer, and Canadian researchers are stepping up the fight

May 4, 2023 | Publication | The University of British Columbia

Featured project(s):

• Rare Isotopes to Transform Cancer Therapy

Assistant Professor Zhengbo Zou Receives NFRF Grant to Enhance Social-Emotional Intelligence of Construction Robots

May 3, 2023 | Publication | University of British Columbia

Featured project(s):

• Social-emotional intelligence in construction robots: Reducing barriers for dynamic human-robot collaboration in construction environments

Building a broken heart: UM researchers to create 3D bio-printed heart muscle

May 2, 2023 | Publication | University of Manitoba News

Featured project(s):

• Building a broken heart: 3D bioprinted, stem cell derived cardiac muscle to study and treat rare metabolic diseases

Des chaînes d’approvisionnement vertes et locales

May 2, 2023 | Publication | Université du Québec à Montréal

Featured project(s):

• Des chaînes d’approvisionnement responsables et ouvertes pour la transformation et la traçabilité des écosystèmes agroalimentaires (CAROTTE AA)

New Frontiers in Research Fund grant supports research to inform a more sustainable and equitable future

May 2, 2023 | Publication | Toronto Metropolitan University

Featured project(s):

• Transparency and shared responsibility for sustainable post-pandemic recovery and evidence-informed decision-making during future global emergencies

University of Hawaii Working with Indigenous Leaders on AI

May 1, 2023 | Publication | Government Technology

Featured project(s):

• Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Government of Canada announces New Frontiers in Research Fund support for Laurier professors Jonathan Crush and Philip Marsh

April 27, 2023 | Publication | Wilfrid Laurier University

Featured project(s):

• Women Feeding Cities Project: Building a Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Informal Food Sector for COVID-19 Recovery
• Improved measurements of Arctic snowfall using a novel interdisciplinary approach (A-Snow)

How UWindsor researchers are preparing for the next pandemic

April 26, 2023 | Publication | CBC

Featured project(s):

• Evidence-based decision-making to counter the effects of emerging pathogens on cross-border economic activity

Western to revolutionize drug development for brain diseases with $24M federal funding boost

April 26, 2023 | Publication | Western University

Featured project(s):

• TRIDENT: TRanslational Initiative to DE-risk NeuroTherapeutics

Concordia researchers receive $500K from Government of Canada to boost ‘high-risk, high-reward’ studies

April 26, 2023 | Publication | Concordia University

Featured project(s):

• Towards Early and Accessible Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Related Lymphedema and Its Social Implications
• The Sub-measurable is Not Unreal: Modeling and Communication of the Effect of COVID-19 on the Brain

IDRC supports five partnerships to address priorities in COVID-19 recovery

April 26, 2023 | Publication | IDRC

Featured project(s):

• Beyond the Informal Water Paradox: Integrating Formal and Informal Water Systems for Inclusive Development
• Building equitable and resilient community-based emergency response strategies in rural Guatemala
• Digital Agripreneurship Innovation to Enhance Post-Pandemic Resilience Among Refugee Women and Youth in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda (Digital Agripreneur Study)
• Expanding Virtual Incubators to Assist Refugees and other Marginalized Persons to Develop Economic Sustainability
• Women Feeding Cities Project: Building a Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Informal Food Sector for COVID-19 Recovery

U of G Project Receives Funding to Explore Inuit-led Research Innovation

April 26, 2023 | Publication | University of Guelph News

Featured project(s):

• Building A Resilient Climate Future Through Inuit-Led Research Innovation: A New Vision For Southern Scientific Institutions in Canada

McMaster researchers awarded over $24 million for climate and pandemic research

April 25, 2023 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal storage of renewable energy

Research to help provide clean drinking water to First Nations communities

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Regina Discourse magazine

Featured project(s):

• Development of self-powered nanocomposite filters for point-of-use drinking water treatment at First Nations communities

UH part of $17M grant to improve AI through Indigenous knowledge

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Hawaii News

Featured project(s):

• Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems

U of T-led collaboration to develop community-tailored clean energy technologies

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Toronto

Featured project(s):

• CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal storage of renewable energy

Two CBS researchers awarded federal funding for innovative projects

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Guelph

Featured project(s):

• The manufactured ecosystem
• Personalized ultra-fast detection and treatment of resistant microbial infections

Sunnybrook-led research team awarded $24M grant to develop approach to reprogram brain cells

April 25, 2023 | Publication | Sunnybrook Research Institute

Featured project(s):

• A pipeline approach for the rational design of neuronal lineage conversion approaches to treat neurological disorders

Une équipe de recherche sur l’intelligence artificielle menée par l’Université Concordia obtient une subvention de près de 23 millions de dollars

April 25, 2023 | Publication | Concordia University

Featured project(s):

• Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Beyond the informal water paradox project awarded New Frontiers in Research funding

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Waterloo

Featured project(s):

• Beyond the Informal Water Paradox: Integrating Formal and Informal Water Systems for Inclusive Development

"Beyond the informal water paradox" project awarded New Frontiers in Research funding

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Waterloo

Featured project(s):

• Beyond the Informal Water Paradox: Integrating Formal and Informal Water Systems for Inclusive Development

Cutting-Edge Gene Therapy Research: Professor Ubaka Ogbogu Secures $24 Million NFRF Transformation Grant

April 25, 2023 | Publication | Dami Adeniyi

Featured project(s):

• A pipeline approach for the rational design of neuronal lineage conversion approaches to treat neurological disorders

Two Ontario Tech researchers leading study to improve reliability of bloodstain analyses at crime scenes

April 25, 2023 | Publication | Ontario Tech University

Featured project(s):

• Reimagining Forensic Bloodstain Pattern Analysis From the Bottom Up

New Frontiers in Research Fund propels research projects at TMU

April 25, 2023 | Publication | Toronto Metropolitan University

Featured project(s):

• An Adaptive Virtual Reality De-escalation Training System for Canada's First Responders

Prof. Ubaka Ogbogu receives New Frontiers in Research Fund Transformation Grant

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Alberta

Featured project(s):

• A pipeline approach for the rational design of neuronal lineage conversion approaches to treat neurological disorders

Dr. Anna Blakney and collaborators awarded New Frontiers in Research Fund grant

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of British Columbia

Featured project(s):

• A pipeline approach for the rational design of neuronal lineage conversion approaches to treat neurological disorders

Historic Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Manitoba

Featured project(s):

• Democratizing Pandemic Recovery: Local Health and Housing Advocacy for Equitable COVID Recovery in Canada and Guatemala

Brock awarded NFRF funding for research on youth and social media, and biases in health care

April 25, 2023 | Publication | The Brock News

Featured project(s):

• Next Gen Edtech: A Systematic Analysis and Modelling of the Latent Effects of Social Media on Youth Digital Citizenship

COVID-19 impact on immigrant languages, culture, health, the focus of USask study

April 25, 2023 | Publication | University of Saskatchewan

Featured project(s):

• Sociocultural and linguistic practices and needs of immigrant communities: the pandemic impact and post-pandemic recovery

The WHO’s international pandemic treaty: Meaningful public engagement must inform Canada’s negotiations

April 23, 2023 | Publication | The Conversation

Featured project(s):

• Understanding, recovering from and mitigating inequities associated with the use of travel measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for post-pandemic recovery and future preparedness from Canada-US border management

Bringing Indigenous Knowledge to the Table

April 20, 2023 | Publication | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Featured project(s):

• Sacred Responsibilities to Water: Indigenous Knowledge Exchange (Canada-Colombia)

Du macro au nano : de l'astronomie à la microscopie

April 18, 2023 | Publication | Acfas Magazine

Featured project(s):

• Flashes of light: discovering rare brain events by combining astronomy and microscopy image analysis

Dal Health researcher contributes to new book on frontline responders and mental health

April 11, 2023 | Publication | Dalhousie University

Featured project(s):

• Individualized CARE for older persons with complex chronic conditions in home care and nursing homes (I-CARE4OLD)

Airplanes face a growing risk of being hit by uncontrolled re-entries of rockets used to launch satellites

March 29, 2023 | Publication | The Conversation

Featured project(s):

• Safe and Sustainable Development of Space

Researchers Identify a Plant-based Compound that Inhibits Reactivation of the HIV Viral Reservoir, Giving the Immune System a Break

March 28, 2023 | Publication | Newswise

Featured project(s):

• Molecular, Chemical, and Community-Based Exploration of Indigenous Medicinal Plants

20 Years of DNA Barcoding: U of G-Developed Technology Hits Milestone

February 10, 2023 | Publication | University of Guelph News

Featured project(s):

• BIOSCAN: Tracing the Patterns of Life on a Changing Planet

Colorectal cancer surgery: gut microbiota helps healing

January 31, 2023 | Publication | Université de Montreal

Featured project(s):

• Prediction of poor anastomotic healing and oncological outcomes after surgery in patients with colorectal cancer

Research explores how fungi become drug-resistant

January 30, 2023 | Publication | University of Alberta

Featured project(s):

• Understanding and mitigating drug resistance: Quantitative models and synthetic gene networks

Towards an equitable, diverse, inclusive and accessible research ecosystem

December 1, 2022 | Publication | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Featured project(s):

• Emergency Management Cycle-Centric R&D: From National Prototyping to Global Implementation

Bayano-McGill Reforestation Project named a finalist for the AASHE Sustainability Awards

November 28, 2022 | Publication | McGill Reporter

Featured project(s):

• From carbon to forests for life: Towards sustainable Indigenous engagement

Judith Burr applied creative methods to her interdisciplinary graduate degree

November 28, 2022 | Publication | UBC Okanagan News

Featured project(s):

• Living with wildfire

Growing a better future

August 16, 2022 | Publication | UM Today News

Featured project(s):

• Designing with biomaterials: A pathway towards resilient architecture in Northern Canada

Bold USask projects aim to advance MS therapy, agriculture innovation

August 15, 2022 | Publication | University of Saskatchewan News

Featured project(s):

• Super-resolution Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging to Illuminate Metals in a Multiple Sclerosis Model
• Use of deep learning to accelerate the underground agricultural revolution: Designing root system architectures that improve crop resilience to climate change
• Mini chromosome development in Canola: a tool to fix heterosis using apomixis technology

Karen Patte earns Early Career Research honour

July 18, 2022 | Publication | Brock University News

Featured project(s):

• Allergenicity from Childhood Adversity

SFU Beedie founded Invention to Innovation (i2I) program developing scientist innovators for major international collaboration on spinal cord research

July 18, 2022 | Publication | SFU

Featured project(s):

• Mend the Gap: A Transformative Biomaterials Platform for Spinal Cord Repair

Caregivers were traumatized by COVID-19 public health and long-term care policies

July 17, 2022 | Publication | The Conversation

Featured project(s):

• Developing and assessing an innovative exergaming technology for older adults living in long-term care homes with a user-centered design approach

Researcher will use New Frontiers funding to study racism and exclusion in academia

July 5, 2022 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• "Hidden Figures" in the Social and Natural Sciences: Exploring Racism, Whiteness, and Epistemic Oppression in the Canadian Academy

Mother tongue: How lullabies could help revitalize Indigenous languages

June 21, 2022 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• Language revitalization in infants: Lullabies as a tool to promote intergenerational mobility, Indigenous health and community well-being

Backing for study exploring stem cell therapy’s use in horses

June 15, 2022 | Publication | Horsetalk

Featured project(s):

• A transdisciplinary approach to develop stem cell therapies for equine cartilage injuries

L'impression 3D : entre art et science

June 14, 2022 | Publication | Acfas Magazine

Featured project(s):

• L'impression 3D de Résidus Industriels Forestiers au service du développement durable: l'exploration de nouvelles formes de matérialité aux frontières des arts, du génie des matériaux et du génie mécanique.

Study explores the promising but still puzzling field of stem cell therapy for painful joint injuries

June 13, 2022 | Publication | UCalgary News

Featured project(s):

• A transdisciplinary approach to develop stem cell therapies for equine cartilage injuries

Adapting to life with COVID-19: Lessons our own immune system can teach us about public health information

June 9, 2022 | Publication | The Conversation

Featured project(s):

• Allergenicity from Childhood Adversity

Queen’s launches Carbon to Metal Coating Institute

May 31, 2022 | Publication | Queen’s Gazette

Featured project(s):

• Protection of Metallic Surfaces from Bulk to Nano Through Molecular-Level Innovation

UCalgary researcher illuminates natural gas leaks with 'smart' infrared cameras

May 19, 2022 | Publication | UCalgary News

Featured project(s):

• Application of image recognition and machine learning to identify, localize, and quantify leak of natural gas

Stress can make you more selfish if you’re good at understanding others’ points of view

May 11, 2022 | Publication | The Conversation

Featured project(s):

• Understanding the neurobiology of social distancing and the impact of staying digitally connected "online"

The Australian biomedical engineers hoping to one day build back spines

May 5, 2022 | Publication | Create (Engineers Australia)

Featured project(s):

• Mend the Gap: A Transformative Biomaterials Platform for Spinal Cord Repair

Mac Eng researchers to develop and expand the power of hearing tech on personal devices

April 29, 2022 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• Towards Virtual and Augmented Acoustic Reality on Commodity Devices

York professors receive awards from Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund

April 26, 2022 | Publication | York University

Featured project(s):

• PhoneMe app: An innovative research approach to community literacy
• Community Science and Accountabillity for Canada's Colonial Genocide Past and Present

Young Innovators: U of S research helps sustain Indigenous farming

April 19, 2022 | Publication | Saskatoon Star Phoenix

Featured project(s):

• miyo mâmawi atoskewin "All working together in a good way": Applying Indigenous knowledge and Western science to discern historic and contemporary agricultural land use on First Nations reserves

SFU research team innovating real-time measurement of climate-related distress in Canada

April 19, 2022 | Publication | SFU News

Featured project(s):

• Creating an Automated Climate Change Distress Monitoring System (A-CDMS) for Measuring Population-level Distress About Climate Change

High-Risk, High-Reward Funding For Amniotic Fluid Study

April 12, 2022 | Publication | The Manitoban

Featured project(s):

• Amniotic fluid as a mediator between maternal smoking and fetal lung health

Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA): An initiative set to break down barriers, creating a more inclusive labour market

April 11, 2022 | Publication | McMaster University

Featured project(s):

• Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA)

UCalgary research will investigate effects of prenatal cannabis exposure on maternal and infant health

April 8, 2022 | Publication | UCalgary News

Featured project(s):

• Examining the current Canadian social context of prenatal cannabis consumption and intersections with maternal and infant health outcome

Lakehead University Professors receiving New Frontiers in Research Grants

April 6, 2022 | Publication | Net News Ledger

Featured project(s):

• Probabilistic slope stability analysis and design under small censored samples due to pandemic
• An ecologically valid approach to examining the behavioural and physiological responses of vulnerable populations during heat waves

Lakehead professors receiving New Frontiers in Research Grants

April 5, 2022 | Publication | Lakehead University

Featured project(s):

• Probabilistic slope stability analysis and design under small censored samples due to pandemic
• An ecologically valid approach to examining the behavioural and physiological responses of vulnerable populations during heat waves

Bold and Innovative

April 5, 2022 | Publication | Memorial University Gazette

Featured project(s):

• Decarbonization Strategy through Bio-hydrogen Production from Brown Algae: Multi-Scale Investigation
• Does exposure to micro- and nanoplastics impact pregnancy and fetal development?

Funding to advance bold, innovative research programs

April 5, 2022 | Publication | Queen’s Gazette

Featured project(s):

• Electro-bio hybrid systems for converting carbon dioxide to bioplastic
• Expanding urban ecology research in developing nations through coordinated community science biodiversity surveys

Study finds link between high density of fracking operations and increased risk of adverse birth outcomes

April 5, 2022 | Publication | University of Calgary

Featured project(s):

• Impact of residential proximity to hydraulic fracturing sites on human reproduction and child development

Joint grant to Algonquin College and CHEO Research Institute supports post pandemic research

April 5, 2022 | Publication | City News

Featured project(s):

• Transforming Health Information, Research, and Scholarship through Technology and Teamwork

Living Near Fracking Sites Linked to Adverse Birth Outcomes

April 4, 2022 | Publication | Medpage Today

Featured project(s):

• Impact of residential proximity to hydraulic fracturing sites on human reproduction and child development

New funding ensures Ontario Tech researchers will continue to monitor COVID-19 and other indicators of health in wastewater

April 4, 2022 | Publication | Ontario Tech University

Featured project(s):

• Wastewater epidemiology to measure community gastrointestinal disease

Going boldly: five Dal scholars receive $1.1 million to move in ambitious new research directions

April 4, 2022 | Publication | Dal News

Featured project(s):

• Social Media Vigilantism in Canadian Gentrifying Neighbourhoods: New Risks for Societal Inclusion
• The Little Brain of the Heart: The Importance of the Intracardiac Nervous System for Cardiac Function in Health, Disease, and Ageing
• Prevention of Environmental Arsenic Cancer Risks: Applying Machine Learning to Predict Arsenic Related Cancers for Proactive Primary Prevention Strategies
• A novel field-based surveillance approach for antimicrobial resistance for pandemic preparedness
• Next Generation Wastewater Surveillance: Reliability, Specificity and Equity

UBC Medicine researchers awarded nearly $1 million from New Frontiers in Research Fund

April 4, 2022 | Publication | University of British Columbia

Featured project(s):

• In Vivo Imaging for Investigating Neurodegenerative Diseases of the Brain and Eye
• Cell simulator: a computer-driven approach to genetically programming cells
• Beyond morphology: Convert disease-related gene networks to pixels in digital pathology to solve the puzzle of "vulnerable plaques" that lead to cardiovascular events
• Developing an integrated, innovative platform for retrospectively quantifying the prenatal and early child exposome using deciduous teeth

McMaster researchers awarded $1.25 million in New Frontiers in Research Fund grants

April 4, 2022 | Publication | Brighter World

Featured project(s):

• Ethno-ecosystem approach to conserving imperiled freshwater turtles in two indigenous Georgian Bay coastal communities
• Development of Remote Collaboration Strategies Across Institutions through the Synthesis of Biomolecule Conjugates
• Towards Virtual and Augmented Acoustic Reality on Commodity Devices
• New Antibiotics Using Molecular Trickery
• Language revitalization in infants: Lullabies as a tool to promote intergenerational mobility, Indigenous health and community well-being

TRU research studies disaster-resilient communities

April 4, 2022 | Publication | Thompson Rivers University

Featured project(s):

• Community Science : interlinking place-based knowledge, social learning, collective action and empowerment

Agile and evocative: Where live coding meets choreography

March 31, 2022 | Publication | Brighter World

Featured project(s):

• Collaborative, online live coding of dance and movement

The next frontier in transplantation: Canadian researchers develop breakthrough technology with the goal of eliminating organ transplant waitlists

March 29, 2022 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• The Next Frontier in Transplantation: Ex Vivo Strategies to Repair and Rebuild Organs

Spray-On Nanotherapeutic Restores Heart Function and Electrical Conductivity

March 16, 2022 | Publication | AZoNano

Featured project(s):

• Hand-held bio-printing device for customized on-the-spot heart repair

The Ărramăt Project: “We don’t want to sit at the table …. We want to reconstruct the table”

March 14, 2022 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• Ărramăt: Strengthening Health and Well-Being through Indigenous-Led Conservation and Sustainable Relationships with Biodiversity

Pioneering research bridges engineering and medicine

March 10, 2022 | Publication | Mirage News

Featured project(s):

• Mend the Gap: A Transformative Biomaterials Platform for Spinal Cord Repair

Mathematicians build the future of materials through art: USask research

March 2, 2022 | Publication | University of Saskatchewan News

Featured project(s):

• Topology and the Next Generation of Quantum Materials

Dr. Isaac Li studies a cell’s sense of touch through designer DNA

March 1, 2022 | Publication | UBC Okanagan News

Featured project(s):

• Trojan tag strategy for exosome liquid biopsy

From metal coating to medical miracles: How chemistry is at the core of an international first that could transform the world’s metals industry and lead to new cancer-fighting technologies

March 1, 2022 | Publication | New Frontiers in Research Fund

Featured project(s):

• Protection of Metallic Surfaces from Bulk to Nano Through Molecular-Level Innovation

Cartographier les étoiles et détecter la maladie de Parkinson

February 25, 2022 | Publication | ULaval nouvelles

Featured project(s):

• Flashes of light: discovering rare brain events by combining astronomy and microscopy image analysis

Cartographier les étoiles et détecter la maladie de Parkinson

February 25, 2022 | Publication | Le Droit

Featured project(s):

• Flashes of light: discovering rare brain events by combining astronomy and microscopy image analysis