Fourteen projects at the University of British Columbia have received a combined $1.7 million in federal funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Research ranging from epilepsy risk to greener fuels will split the funding from CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund, which is allocated to post-secondary institutions across Canada to amplify faculty recruitment efforts.
“CFI’s investment in our researchers allows them to be bold and think big,” said John Hepburn, UBC vice president, research and international. “The funding supports the university’s mission to raise the bar with research that’s transformative for the lives of Canadians and people the world over.”
UBC was among 37 schools to receive CFI funding totalling more than $35 million. Ed Holder, Minister of State of Science and Technology, made the announcement Tuesday in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
“In our government’s updated Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy, we are making record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge, create jobs and prosperity and improve the quality of life of Canadians,” Holder said. “Canada has become a destination of choice for highly talented scientific researchers thanks in part to our support for world-class university and college infrastructure which helps train the next generation of Canadian research talent.”
Background
The UBC projects to receive funding are:
A Surgical-genomic Tissue Bank for Endometriosis, $125,000
Paul Yong, Faculty of Medicine
The Exchange: A Humanist Data Lab, $48,040
Constance Crompton, UBC Okanagan Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
Facility for the Integrative Study of Species Ranges, $150,000
Jill Jankowski, Faculty of Science
Ion Channels in Excitability Disorders Translational Genetics Laboratory: Personal Molecular Diagnostic Risk Prediction, $175,456
Tara Klassen, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The Psychopathology, Lifespan and Neurocognitive Research Laboratory (PLAN Lab), $125,000
Maya Libben, UBC Okanagan IKB Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Infrastructure for Silicon-Photonics Integrated Microsystem, $159,544
Sudip Shekhar, Faculty of Applied Science
Multi-scale Measurements from an Autonomous Ocean Observing System in the Canadian Arctic, $147,052
Stephanie Waterman, Faculty of Science
Metabolic Engineering for Green Synthesis of Fuels & Pharmaceuticals, 150,000
Vikramaditya (Vikram) Yadav, Faculty of Applied Science
Optical Coherence Tomography in Children, $121,547
Kevin Harris, Faculty of Medicine
Laboratory for Medical Physics, $125,000
Andrew Jirasek, UBC Okanagan IKB Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Chemical Biology Research Laboratory, $124,750
Frederic Menard, UBC Okanagan IKB Faculty of Arts & Sciences
The Research Studio for Spaces and Things, $95,050
Samuel Roy-Bois, UBC Okanagan Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies
Functional Genomics of Genome Integrity, $125,000
Peter Stirling, Faculty of Medicine
A Dynamic Contact Module for the Nanoindentation System, $33,078
Rizhi Wang, Faculty of Applied Science